Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. A new competency started to appear in the DNA of this generations successful founding teams: Design.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. 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

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

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. Success brought partnerships with U.S. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. But Ellison is of course chairman of that board (long-time chairman Jeff Henley will stay on as vice chairman). Boards Leadership Technology'

Company 8

Company Chief Technology Officer IPO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. There is the same faith that, if we can just get a new technology adopted, the business model will follow. 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

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Their ongoing success pushes incumbents to alternately revisit core business assumptions and seek regulatory relief. Successful platforms empower their users. Needless to say, they can share success stories on Facebook. The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. The fact is, highly capable people are often driven to success standards that are extrinsically measured — e.g. they provide external credentialization — but have little in common with what they truly wanted to accomplish.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

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. They knew that technology (and the staff to support it) was the company’s bread and butter. Our success is based on trust.

Case Study 8

Case Study Crisis IPO CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

This is not a strictly either-or choice, of course. Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world. Even the best groups have stars, and not all stars find it hard to work well with others. If we're building a company, what sorts of people do we want to recruit?

IPO 15

IPO Engineering Taylorism Taylor 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The future has really never looked better!

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 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. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. Of course, VC-financed tech startups are different from the general workforce. For venture firms, it’s important to recognize that having female partners improves the chances of success for the female-led startups they finance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed. Computers Everywhere!

Power 10

Power IPO Retail Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Of course, there are other possible explanations for this. The three other CEO success stories, however, more clearly did not involve breakthrough innovation. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. That’s nice, but it’s not enough given the current costs of higher education (a single course can cost $5,000). Social innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

This approach is successful for some ventures — mostly for software-related companies with modest initial operating expenses. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures.

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. These three ingredients create a reinforcing cycle, as entrepreneurs who enjoy success find they want to do it again. Singaporeans are not,” critics would respond.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 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