Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. With a business case, odds are that you’re trying to insert change,” says Duarte. The price tag?

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. He says, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Every communication experience is an opportunity to influence. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions. Win at the Inner Game: Rid the Company of Barriers to Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. But if in reaction to Pandora, SiriusXM would instead have launched a free, advertising-supported version of their content for online and mobile, they might have permanently delayed Pandora''s IPO by denying them the ability to grow users.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. For startups outside of those cities, that means there is a smaller pool of locally-managed dollars to chase for your startup.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. Accelerator programs are most successful when they provide the right help to the right people. One of the more complicated issues accelerators need to manage may be investors’ implicit bias. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Most of the big successes followed this pattern. A new competency started to appear in the DNA of this generations successful founding teams: Design. And if you need a few successful companies who consider design a key competitive differentiator you don't have to look hard: Mint , Square , Quora , Asana and Path , just to name a few.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Most of the big successes followed this pattern. A new competency started to appear in the DNA of this generations successful founding teams: Design. And if you need a few successful companies who consider design a key competitive differentiator you don't have to look hard: Mint , Square , Quora , Asana and Path , just to name a few.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. In a good start-up, these characteristics are not hard to find.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

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). Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. Senior Management & the Board of Directors. Is Wall Street a Good Judge of Leadership?

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IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. The three other CEO success stories, however, more clearly did not involve breakthrough innovation. tax jurisdiction.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The increased role of finance in our economy. Government.

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Cost Health Care IPO Automotive 172

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees. A local, adaptive culture, not just presence, is vital for Chinese brands to make the right decisions overseas.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

.” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. billion in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? Transparency and governance issues abound. billion in 2014.

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