Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

I had just begun to get to know the company, and it seemed to me to be brimming with innovation energy, particularly among young employees who would regularly throw out creative "What if's" during casual conversations. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. And debated.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. Managers focus on maximizing one’s share of the market for existing products. The first step is to find a founder’s quest.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

But the underlying theme of the mainstream commentary was that this pay scheme might make the CEO seem like “a terrible manager” or “crazy,” to quote from a fairly lighthearted segment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. All of this overreaction is not isolated by any stretch. And that’s fair.

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Venture Capitalist Energy CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.” ” An Alternative Path.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The gripe: "We're pouring tremendous energy into finding the right resumes. Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" But we're losing the ability to find the right people.".

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Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 16

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Finding that it helped ease his jet lag, he decided to license the product and sell it in Austria under the name Red Bull Energy Drink. By adapting size, taste, and brand, he created the first energy drink for the alternative clubbing scene — something previously unseen in the Thai and Austrian markets.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. Other times, they make expensive acquisitions of money-losing startups with great intellectual property (IP) and management teams as they take a longer-term view. assets of the Weather Channel).

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Consider a European energy company that decided to open an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley a number of years ago.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2019

This can be tricky with so many areas that need attention and particularly if this is your first business venture. With this in mind, here are a few financial tips for entrepreneurs which should help you to manage money effectively from the start. Venture capitalists. Using alternative energy. Angel investors.

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Entrepreneur Tips Venture Capitalist Insurance 62

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. the winner’s mindset. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” It’s a lot easier to maintain high levels of energy and morale at a company when sales are booming and the stock price is soaring.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Mulcahy further cautions that, “the things that work for you as CEO work against you as a retiree, such as being in command and your high energy level.” “Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

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.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. It's hard to go from two guys in a garage in 1939 to 325,000 people around the world and expect to maintain even a semblance of that original energy, urgency, and relevance.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

-India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“If she’s a tech entrepreneur, tell her that you’re also inviting venture capitalists,” for example. Manage your existing connections. “The fundamental truth about being an introvert is that you need to manage your energy differently from other people,” says Clark.

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Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Conrad was juggling too many other pursuits to take an executive position at the time, but he agreed to help her and serve on the board, and his ideas, energy, and fearlessness contributed to the organization’s success in attracting dedicated people and money. Because the defining vision had been Helena’s, she became the CEO.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. In fact, few of us do. The good news is that you can change that.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Furthermore, doing IPO is not only an expensive proposition, it also consumes managerial time and energy. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S. retains its leadership in technological progress. Public investors do not miss out the action either.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“And while the public had a clear appetite for new technologies to be managed to mitigate such risks and harms, less than a third were confident politicians were doing enough.”

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

As with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, it is the talent that is the ultimate customer, not the employer. They more effectively channel your time and energy with the candidate. Yet if you want the best talent, then almost by definition you should want talent that has choices.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Skills Ethics 10