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). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

After making their purchases, the street vendors fan out into the city on bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, and trains. During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products.

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Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The kinds of shifts we’re talking about have come more naturally to greatly successful startups of the last two decades — Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook among them — and their venture capital investors. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. assets of the Weather Channel).

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

This annotated data is greatly facilitating the training of machine learning algorithms without demanding that the machine-learning experts manually catalogue and index the world. It is working with an ecosystem of partners who are developing applications leveraging the dynamic learning and cloud computing capabilities of Watson.

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Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Some farsighted companies never cut back on training in the downturn, but many did.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Get people aboard through short duration training programs.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. So what is happening now?

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

As a consultant, I've been trained to sniff out underlings who can only say no (and aren't authorized to say yes), and strategically work to evade them. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate."

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Thoroughly practical, day-to-day primer for achieving and maintaining their highest level of leadership, for today and for a lifetime.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In this environment, a new 4G only player has entered in 2016 with an initial investment of $20 billion in network and market infrastructure. Amazon, Alibaba and venture capitalists have invested billions into Indian e-commerce. Nimble companies and organizations will stand to gain by this unique opportunity.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. Such stakeholders generally expect a "social return" on capital. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

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. to assist with the local go-to-market approach. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Seek out entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their companies from $1-$10 million rather than startup entrepreneurs (who are often first-timers) pitching ideas that aren’t yet on the market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Sometimes development involves affirmation. All education therefore involves both training and socialization. It is a market of knowledge where no one is known and care is limited to the provision of choices.

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