N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Those who can’t or won’t become the barrier to growth and success. Success depends on your ability to delegate not just responsibility; you have to delegate authority. Leaders know that building a culture by design is critical to business success. You’re not managing your energy well.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." This simple strategy proved wildly successful. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Successful startups don’t stay entrepreneurial for long.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

While IBM can do that, I will prefer readily available local talents for cost and locally supported organic succession. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Education drives technology. Most want to be global without a local creed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Their ongoing success pushes incumbents to alternately revisit core business assumptions and seek regulatory relief. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Successful platforms empower their users.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Success sells. He realized there were two very distinct types of creativity — "conceptual" (in which a young person has a clear vision and executes it early, a la Picasso or Zuckerberg) and "experimental" (think Cezanne or Virginia Woolf, practicing and refining their craft over time and winning late-in-life success).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. They may try to rationalize their micromanagement by arguing that every aspect of their venture’s success hinges upon their own exacting review. Set your company up for success. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. What are the key actions of strategic leaders who drive innovation without formal authority?

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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. There has to be a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

In other words, "we" is bigger than "me" — the true measure of success is not the value you create for yourself but the values that define your work and how you lead and live. That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. It sounds counterintuitive, I know.

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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

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. In a good start-up, these characteristics are not hard to find.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

I hope Cook doesn’t listen, because I think it would be bad for Apple, all of its employees who have contributed to its success, and the American economy. Icahn has contributed absolutely nothing to Apple’s success; nor have its public shareholders in general. Apple Economy Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Most of the big successes followed this pattern. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. A new competency started to appear in the DNA of this generations successful founding teams: Design. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Most of the big successes followed this pattern. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. A new competency started to appear in the DNA of this generations successful founding teams: Design. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design thinking.

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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. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. It’s not all about venture funding. Related Video.

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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.". For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Not" is not a typo.

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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. The VC industry has failed to innovate. Well, it depends.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world. The "smart" do, in fact, take from the "strong."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? His mission has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. ” To inspire the idealess, I’ve spent the past month investigating exactly where successful founders got their revelations. Entrepreneurship Managing yourself' LinkedIn has surged over 100%.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. That’s the good news.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

What makes it so successful? As the saying goes, “Success has many fathers.” This innovation made it cheaper for carriers to deploy base stations, and was popular with European carriers. So far, Huawei has had many successes to celebrate. billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. Investing in innovation capacity. Across the rest of Europe, the state of digital evolution has been mediocre and the pace of improvement, tepid.

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