Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. Thus, digital entrepreneurs choose their financiers not only for their contributed capital but also for their partnership value and exit options they create for the company.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Talk to other entrepreneurs, but only accept advice from the successful. Mine your backyard.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s easy to let yourself off the hook as a busy entrepreneur. ” He is an entrepreneur, consultant, and public speaker. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. Fail forward so you don’t succeed backwards. I’m sick of success. I search for significance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I've offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman ; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. A simple tip for a manager is to stand while you're at your desk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

A common tactical error here is for a product- or technology-focused entrepreneur to look for someone with top shelf management consulting experience: it's not a bad instinct, since management consultants are polished and smart, but they rarely have core executive chops apart from project management or some general "operations" background.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. As an investor, he realized that budding entrepreneurs might gain a lot from — but rarely get to see — other companies'' presentation slides. Technology' No surprise there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. According to the Journal of Management , NASA scientists and engineers found that performance increases as deadlines shorten, but when the deadlines became too short, performance declined. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. A big selling point, the start-up hopes, is the energy-saving potential: If you’re a facilities manager, you can lower the temperature by 1 degree and see whether anyone reacts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Technology was part of the problem. But even more troublesome than the lack of technology were the cultural underpinnings of eighteenth-century British capitalism. The investors sent a series of managers to take over the operation in New Jersey. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And the Australians — always up for trying something wild and new — saw fit not only to endure a speech on the topic but four years of public-private partnerships to test it, refine it, smash it apart, remake it, and test it again. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Yet HBR saw fit to publish it. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Changes in enterprise IT over the past decade mean that every company is now a technology company. Their IT and security teams are peripheral concerns, costs to be managed rather than centers of excellence that support the core business. vulnerability intelligence (what is being exploited in the wild?), Security & privacy IT'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Maybe your hand is forced by downsizing or new technologies are automating you right out of relevance. Time to disrupt myself.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Reviews: “This wild, wicked show is not just a screamfest; it’s a good piece of theater!” - The New York Times “Funny, furious and wholly enthralling!” - Wall Street Journal “Teller has filled Play Dead with elaborate illusions and effects including a slam-bang finale!”

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