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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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

By my reckoning, Ben Horowitz is the most thought-provoking blogger on leadership and strategy today. As one of the two name partners at Andreessen Horowitz , he is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. The Peacetime CEO "sets big, hairy, audacious goals," he says. Of that I'm not so sure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Reset your goals and KPIs. Your leadership is crucial. Rethink outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. The Valley of Death. So far, the program has exceeded the expectations of the initial plan.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

T REN GRIFFIN, who writes the well-read 25iq blog , has assembled a collection of insights for entrepreneurs from some of the most successful venture capitalists and coaches of business founders in the world. 302). * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *. Talk to them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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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. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Relationship management is also vital in successful negotiation, resolving conflicts and working with others toward a shared goal which is especially challenging when a PM is tasked with balancing the needs of customers, resource-constrained engineering teams, and the company’s revenue goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? 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. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Lee's business model involves building a core marketing company and surrounding it with satellite investments that can draw on the capabilities of the core to realize their growth potential. Listening to their needs and concerns, and showing that you will help them achieve their goals. That's the essence of charisma.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can’t predict or control the future, but you can control your organization’s alignment in terms of mission, vision, goals, and strategy. Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. GPSing can be used by individuals, of course, or by organizations as a whole.

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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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

Most of them revolve around the role of marketing. Those who doubt the value or efficacy of marketing cite the success of such startups as Slack, Atlassian and WhatsApp, which launched with limited investment in marketing. The CEO’s job is to reinforce the goals, deadlines and accountability of the launch.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Although many countries have set the goal, few have achieved it. Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. Contrary to the dominant view that policy is meant to simply “fix” market failures, public agencies like DARPA and SBIR in the U.S.,

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