Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. 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. This is non-negotiable.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. An Idea Takes Shape.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. The fact is, most companies aren't very good at game-changing innovation.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too.

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Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies. In this way, the interns will build practical knowledge while making a significant contribution to the firms' success.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Insight Center.

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Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

This particular toy importer violated every one of the rules that govern the success of a midsize company’s strategic initiative: It gave an unproven team an unrealistic budget and asked it to do a highly technical, risky, but mission-critical job without strong external partners or a proven implementation process. Their ability to execute.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century. In a relatively short time, venture-backed companies have grown to account for over 20% of US GDP today. The best VCs have successfully identified major industry disruptions before they occur.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Beyond that, there is mobile, e-commerce affiliate programs, social media, big data, and the fact that it is easier to experiment with and develop new content on digital platforms than it ever was in the physical world.

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Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 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. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. When for-profit investors fund technology solutions, they naturally seek good returns on their investments. Foundations typically fund projects, not products. When it came time to develop version 2.0,

Education 14

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. On the belief that everyone in the division would need to support the campaign to make it successful, he spent as much energy cultivating internal ownership as external engagement. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. Companies that move to Silicon Valley after gaining traction end up having a better success rate. The answer, in most cases, is no.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Silicon Valley was abuzz with reports that Google had granted across-the-board raises of 10 percent to all 23,000 or so of its employees — a bracing reminder of just how much money Google makes, and of its willingness to share the spoils of success with its people. But companies work by different rules.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. have spread like wildfire.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Will badges require successful course completion? What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? While recommendation engines have been fantastically successful for the Amazons and Netflixes, they remain relative underachievers given their technical and algorithmic potential. But is it enough?

Innovation 15

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. .” What successful companies are doing right.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Research we have conducted has revealed a variety of new, highly impactful investment approaches that can help accelerate the pace of the development, approval, and commercialization of new cancer therapies. In this approach, drug discovery is developed around a specific disease and is financed by the efforts of a disease-focused foundation.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Venture Funding Finance Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. 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. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

All these industries were created by startups, many of whom used their precious patents to secure funding from venture investors — and then used that funding to hire the people needed to develop the new products, services and medical cures that constantly refresh U.S. prosperity.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. The venture industry is betting big on digital health, with $4–$5 billion invested annually.

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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