Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Their ongoing success pushes incumbents to alternately revisit core business assumptions and seek regulatory relief. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Successful platforms empower their users.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We transformed those feelings into a simple sentence: “We pioneer the future of financing, improving the success of every business we serve and the quality of each life we touch.”

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Digital encyclopedias such as Microsoft''s Encarta and later, Wikipedia, virtually destroyed the market for the venerable print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Of course not.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. Success brought partnerships with U.S. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 13

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

A pitch (exaggerated, of course) may look like this. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

By positioning the brand between value-oriented mass brands and exclusive boutiques, the company attracted the attention of a certain type of shopper — and its success (consistent double-digit growth and a $2.6 billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Branding Marketing Strategy'

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. Baldino moved aggressively to bring Provigil to market. Your company has just developed an amazing new product. What do you do next?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

At the time the merger negotiations began, AOL was enjoying intense investor interest, to the point where a company that was only 15 years old and had been public for only 8 years had a higher market capitalization than media powerhouse Time Warner. What successful companies are doing right. ” Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Business Model IPO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. Facebook, I think, has been smarter about this than many others; they began with niche markets and gradually expanded outward. I've written for a long time about the need for companies to create a complete "consumption chain" in order for their products or services to be successful.

Media 14

Media Advertising Niche Marketing Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Then the CHRO paused for a moment and added, “Of course there is this issue of his executive presence. Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. The most successful candidates are clear about their individual contributions without overusing “I.”

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But Ellison is of course chairman of that board (long-time chairman Jeff Henley will stay on as vice chairman). And of the remarkable tech IPO class of 1986, which included Adobe, EMC, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, Oracle has been the best performer. One size does not fit all. Boards Leadership Technology'

Company 8

Company Chief Technology Officer IPO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Tech bloggers had jumped all over the story; many speculated that SimplePay had begun to slow its hiring and scrimp on security investments in an effort to spiff up its balance sheet for a potential IPO. “Of course, it was,” Michelle responded. We’ve got an IPO to prepare for, after all.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Crisis IPO CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. The CEO isn’t the only one likely to be scrutinized by the market.

IPO 8

IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Of course, there are other possible explanations for this. And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D. The three other CEO success stories, however, more clearly did not involve breakthrough innovation. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

There are many anecdotes of high-growth ventures in all segments which got their starts in incubators, but there are also many more examples, less visible perhaps, of very success ventures that made no use of co-working space. In Israel there were three or four investors involved in many of the early successes.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. It enables the product to function.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. I can’t think of a single one” A fair point.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. Sometimes this shift results in the whole-sale replacement of the previous market leader; sometimes it creates a completely parallel market (which typically ends up being larger than the previous market due to the democratizing power of disruption).

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. Alibaba’s businesses are not completely diverse, of course.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12