Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Paul Graham, one of the founders of the startup incubator Y Combinator , wrote about Airnb , a business whose entrepreneurial goal was to create a platform to match beds with people in New York city. Airnb aimed to complete this missing market for matching those homes with travelers. But some are trying to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Understanding financial news is a key part of participating in the stock market. Venture capital is also concentrated in tech startups, whereas private equity portfolios span broader industries. Unfortunately, Wall Street often describes business activities in less-than-clear terminology. What Are Advisory Firms?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. Politely decline.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they''ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. It''s like that. Recognition is a powerful reward too. Innovation Isn''t an Idea Problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Contests are at the opposite end of the size and cost scales from venture funding, but they can be an effective complement to a corporate innovation program. It’s like that. Five Ways to Innovate Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Venture capitalists have significant pattern recognition skills related to both startup companies and specific markets. Decision-makers assessing a market about which they know nothing not surprisingly demand significant proof before making a decision. Venture capitalists almost always stage investment in companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

He was brimming with energy as the story slowly built through page after page of facts and figures and graphs and pictures and profiles of interesting companies around the globe that were attacking the market he planned to target. He and his team were going to go in a different direction and try to disrupt the market. Then, the twist!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

We'll explore three topics related to scale: January : What are market-based approaches to social change, and how to fund them. Rhett Morris and Linda Rottenberg ask whether entrepreneurs must prioritize financial goals over social ones in order to be successful. And this is just the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. Test your marketing promise. They buy promises.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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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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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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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. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

As one of the two name partners at Andreessen Horowitz , he is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Eric Schmidt was the perfect Peacetime CEO — a "gregarious and articulate" leader who was adept at "expanding the market and reinforcing the company's strengths." Of that I'm not so sure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” Two years ago, Friedman left his position as a Fortune 100 executive to start a new venture. His goal was to employ people on the autism spectrum – individuals who have traditionally been unemployable.

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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. Paul Graham: “If you want to start a startup, you’re probably going to have to think of something fairly novel. Talk to them.

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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. Granted, it''s not a perfect picture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. Our goal is to be our members’ personal financial agent for our full range of services.” What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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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. By reaching new customers in current markets? Let’s start with the question of what year you should be targeting.

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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. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 Titans of capitalism such as venture capitalist John Doerr and GE CEO Jeff Immelt are speaking out in favor of a price on carbon, to drive energy innovation. trillion by 2020.

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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. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2013

I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. He polled his VC colleagues: "The odds of actually receiving funding from a cold email: 50,000 to 1," he writes in his book Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get From Start-up to IPO on Your Terms.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. But we’d speculate that Fitbit could do just as well at coaching you through your personal health goals by logging the reading on the minute and storing 1/60th of the data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Are you skeptical about using digital and social media in business marketing? Increasingly, business customers create great content and experiences to market to their own customers, so they know what they want from suppliers when they themselves are the potential buyers.

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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. Gone are the days when the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road were merely an elite cash dispensary.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Two things determine whether a business can get off the ground successfully and sustainably: a validated market opportunity with customers willing to pay for a product or a service; and a product or service that addresses such an opportunity. The only incubators I consider "real" are the ones that help entrepreneurs achieve these two goals.

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