Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 61

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? He wrote a short blog post then challenged me via Facebook to do something with it. This is my shot at “doing something with it&# Jerry.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.”

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

For example, in the case of a $100 million CVC fund, which can close five to 10 investments a year, these costs typically range from $1 to $2 million per startup — not including the administrative and variable costs of the pilot itself. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The problem is far more insidious than those articulated in venture capitalist Bill Gurley’s thoughtful CLV vivisection. For example: Our customers become much more valuable when… they give us good ideas. For all its impressive strengths, however, CLV suffers from a crippling flaw that blurs its declared focus.

Company 12

Company Venture Capitalist Workshop Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. Maybe even to one or two members of leadership. Leadership can wander the room and stop to discuss ideas that catch their attention. And screened. To key functional representatives.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Options for control points also expand through the IoT.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

For example, Titan's research suggested that as few as 20% of Indian females owned watches. For both its RAGA and Fastrack lines, Titan put people who "looked" like the target consumer in key leadership roles, and spent a good deal of time trying to understand target customers in a deeper way. "We Rethink the offer. That's typical.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist RACI Market Segmentation 12

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Take, for example, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman — the tale of a tragic hero, Willy Loman, whose fallibility lies in his lack of self-awareness. In my day job as a venture capitalist, I also look for stories I can connect to — in this case the human stories behind the entrepreneurs who are looking for investors.

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Power Venture Capitalist Self-aware Entrepreneur 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. For example, if your startup is in esports, you’ll have the obligatory slides talking about how many hundreds of millions of viewers of esports there are.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

No matter how poorly an established company is doing — take Macy’s, GE, or the insurance giant AIG as examples — no one there believes in their gut that anything they might do will directly cause the company to go out of business. There’s a belief that the sun will keep rising. Private vs. Public.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Patients undergoing complex heart operations, clients getting legal advice and venture capitalists investing millions in entrepreneurial teams might understandably want to know the cognitive health of their doctors , lawyers and entrepreneurs. No doubt, executives will have to lead by example. My bet is, no.

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Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 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. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience. Silicon Valley lore offers examples of exceptional founder-CEOs, such as Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, who were able to lead their companies through an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Other examples abound once you look for them. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. When things go poorly for a nonconformist, how easy it is to call them the fool. Noura Al Kaabi.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. “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. economy and to societal wellbeing. I have rebooted myself.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

“Venture capitalists are looking for rapid exits and researchers are pretty much stuck with the idea that they came to the party with. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density. a leader in virtually every area of advanced technology.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. The latter company is a great example of what it looks like to place design at the center of corporate strategy. The returns in our Design Value Index were 2.28

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

But I could have made it more concrete by saying, for example, that my end goal was to see if there is a partner deal opportunity between our firms. My venture-capitalist colleagues and I are accustomed to receiving pitches. in the "investment ask" example above) matter a lot. Go ahead and ask.

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Venture Capitalist Objective Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists. EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. Merck and Co.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 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. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” Petraeus shared a classic military example. .” I would add that the aspiration in uncertainty is not to reduce the chances of failure, but to minimize its costs, and the odds that the same failure recurs.

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Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

An example I love is how M.S. Some of the most successful venture capitalists, like Andreesen Horowitz have been quite vocal about their strong preference for investing in businesses where the founder is the CEO. The second element of the founder’s mentality is a front line obsession — as the founder had.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

As venture capitalist and entrepreneur Rich Stromback told me in a series of interviews, “Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. Leadership & Managing People Book. For example, one year I told someone, “Don’t go to the Bill Gates party this year.” They are attached to people.”

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Venture Capitalist Efficiency Bond Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. For example, Google requires PMs to pass a technical skills test regardless of what product they’ll work on. VMotion at VMware was a great example of this. Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. Are venture capitalists making significant and lasting investments in your industry? To assess such risks to your business, consider the following six questions: Is customer loyalty decreasing?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

But that kind of leadership also has its limitations. Here are three reasons the new leadership imperative is all about transparency. A great example is this 2009 video featuring Best Buy Chief Marketing Officer Barry Judge, in which he explains his philosophy of marketing and how the company should interact with customers.).

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