The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. This has made the once-fabled unicorn a much more frequent sight, with recent valuations hitting the frothy heights of 40-50 times revenue. trillion at the time of writing.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 114

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. cloud, microservices, APIs, and the like).

Company 102

Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 102

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. Indeed, his data shows that research productivity has declined by a factor of 41 since the 1930s, which equates to over 5% per year on average. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

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 18, 2018

.” And for those in manufacturing or production companies, the future may arrive even sooner. ” Machine learning algorithms are also predicted to replace people responsible for “optical part sorting, automated quality control, failure detection, and improved productivity and efficiency.” Insight Center.

Creativity 14

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

As I found, the key question an entrepreneur wishing to launch a new periodical must ask is: Why would a hawker want to lock up his scarce capital in my product? That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products. cable operators fight TV channels while Amazon and Google take on publishers. Even in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Obviously, such “venture client” collaboration was possible at BMW before the launch of that unit, but it was lengthy and cumbersome due to complex administrative barriers.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. 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? Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Killing Ideas Faster.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 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). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

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., And it's not without risk.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. It’s not just products. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

But succeeding with disruption first requires developing a strategic plan that can be executed. It''s hard to set precise operational milestones when you don''t know what the business model is going to be. Why is that? Tight deadlines, frequent check-ins, and additional resources indeed help to accelerate execution of a strategic plan.

Innovation 9

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). Companies are both operators and investors. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At the same time, the federal and state governments understand that their budgets can't muster all the ideas, products and services that are needed to solve the problems facing us. Big opportunities exist for organizations challenge existing beliefs, to innovate, and to leverage to create value through new products and services.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

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. But with the talent pool stretched, even founders struggle to find partners or staff.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. At the extreme, your company becomes an out-of-touch bureaucracy where power shifts to corporate offices and to people who may never have served a customer or made a product.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 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. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Despite the inevitability of this “smart” future, today only a small portion of businesses regularly merge data and physical products. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. But the solutions described won’t be comprehensive.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. They create resentment among employees who are giving it their all, and they drag down productivity. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. It is the end of you as a leader. About the Author.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Getting booted out of the fair would be the equivalent of being blacklisted from Amazon in a world where that was the only way of reaching your customers, which isn’t that far from the circumstances businesses operate in today.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

This isn't because organizations can't identify new opportunities or develop new and novel concepts; many can and do. For these ventures to have a better chance at success they need room to take risks and try something different. Amazon has launched Lab126 to develop physical products, and A9 to create search products.

Productivity 13

Productivity Products Venture Capitalist Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Just as venture capitalists are taking a hard look at this new phenomenon, so should we all. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 9

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Gerber's team knew if they could develop a quick, healthy meal for adults, they had an avenue into meaningful growth. When Gerber launched its product targeted towards this opportunity, it flopped disastrously. In three months, the product was pulled from all grocers and returned to the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Maturity 15

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way). In healthy and aligned organizations, the stated values and operating values are one and the same.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

As the venture capitalist Mike Maples, Jr. All professional middlemen do some version of giving before they take, whether they be appliance flippers on Craigslist or operate two-sided markets like Airbnb. put it to me, “middlemen connect nodes in a network to increase the value of the network.”

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Venture Capitalist Travel 8