Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. That failure is not due to a lack of trying.

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Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

"While the joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that helped us navigate the economic crisis," explained Chairman Azim Premji , "with the market exploding now, there is a need for a simpler, leaner organization. We hope the organizational change will result in faster growth." It's time to focus."

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Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

general and former CIA director David Petraeus, now a partner in the global investment firm KKR and Chairman of KKR’s Global Institute. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.”

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Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

The talent problem is further exacerbated by the global entrepreneurial revolution , which has caused many talented job seekers to think that starting their own company is the ultimate path to success. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The discussion focused on how companies, consumers and governments can work in new ways to solve the major challenges around sustainability and the global environment. And rapid changes in the global climate have left companies with little alternative but to embrace sustainability. trillion by 2020.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India. David Mulford, U.S.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Finally, I hear you say is that this is about market capitalism and the only measure of success is whether you have made money.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. 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.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 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. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. The Global Digital Economy. Can it do so at the speed of a start-up?

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Even better. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Insight Center.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

opened in 1959 and is still operating. Incubators are now a global phenomenon, and there isn''t a major city in the world where an incubator isn''t cropping up. Over 99% of companies should operate as organically grown, self-sustaining businesses — bootstrapped, without external financing. Most of them fail.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

As industrial era companies, from Mattel to GE, start to transform into software-enabled businesses, executives stand to benefit from understanding three principles that drive venture investors. Venture capitalists never expect their work to be repaid evenly. ” It a necessary piece of venture investing.

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Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

With that in mind, how do we find new ways to fund India’s tech startups and build global businesses? However, if you need capital to validate, you are operating in a zone that will be full of very dark hours. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. How do you stay current with what is happening in the great wide world if your network is mostly internal and operational? Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 13

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Globally competitive. Speeding the recovery. growth and dynamism. A changing landscape.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 84

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. “How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. IT Does Matter.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed?

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