Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

For some, the key to survival was calling up venture capitalists like Mark Stevens for a quick influx of cash, but not everyone was able to receive funding assistance. Since you can’t always depend on a financing source to help you out when times get tough, you need to boost your marketing plan and develop loyalty among your customers.

Tips 91

Tips Marketing Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 91

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

There are two types of PR firms: “upstream” strategic firms that have a seat at the big table in developing positioning and messaging, and “downstream” implementation firms. You can never have enough content, so start developing—and reviewing—it the moment your positioning is finalized. Website UX trumps brand.

Succession 124

Succession PR Venture Capitalist B2C 124

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disrupters who change them.”. Practical solutions.

Innovation 86

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 86

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

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Venture Capitalist 187

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking, the vast majority of people you know probably work in the same field or industry as you. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. The notes below are practical working tips on how to go about navigating venture capitalist conversations. This is non-negotiable.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Our results reveal striking differences between venture capitalists’ gender-stereotypical beliefs and actual performance of these ventures.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Debt to Equity Ratio Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. It's media disintermediation at work! Nice to hear!

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

As the first industrial designer to graduate from Harvard Business School, I thought design had hit the big time a few years ago, when the students at my alma mater created a Design club. When I first told my own father the name of my college major, he thought that industrial design meant creating factories. Design Tech industry'

Kleiner 8

Kleiner Venture Capitalist Industry Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For the bright-eyed grad, a lack of life experience and industry expertise, along with a mountain of student debt can make the business journey a particularly tricky one. With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Most industries in the U.S.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Few industries, if any, will be untouched. As McKinsey put it in a recent report: “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).”

Creativity 13

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). The supporting industries that an early-stage tech start-up needs simply don't exist locally.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, at your local big box electronics retailer or department store. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today. But in a connected world, products are no longer one-and-done.

Business Model 10

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” ” Or “ maybe I shouldn’t be in [this industry]” Some women scaled back on their ambitions, while others left companies or their chosen industry altogether.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. So in 1986, the American government created SEMATECH , a consortium of government agencies, research institutions and private industry. Much like cars and electronics, microchips seemed destined to become another symbol of American decline.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. In short, we need the world’s biggest investors to connect with the world’s nimblest investment-technology startups.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 8

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s an eight-year-old restaurant in an industry where 80% of new entrants fail in the first five years. Most of us aren’t in the restaurant industry. In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. .”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It's relatively open, with a huge under-served population, and the media industry is large, with TV sets in 138 million households and total newspaper circulation exceeding 300 million. Seasoned venture capitalists, acutely aware of the problem, are often wary of investing in ventures that must create new distribution networks.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Despite the tidal wave of medical knowledge and digital capabilities, widespread unwarranted variations in clinical practice drive higher costs and result in poorer quality.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8