Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Guest post from Bobby Martin : There comes a time for every founder of a rapidly growing entrepreneurial business when you have to decide if you can be the one to both lead and manage into and through this growth stage. You need to become primarily a manager. Learn how to manage the complexities of running a fast-growth firm.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2021

The goal is to gain equity, help the company grow and then sell it or when it goes very well, do an IPO. This type of source funding has seen quite a hike as there have been many success stories. If you aim to hold onto your business, then angel investment may not be for you. Crowdfunding.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. Case believes that if you are to start a successful company in the Third Wave it’s going to come down to partnership, policy, and perseverance. Your partnership skills may very well be the determining factor in the success or failure of your product. Can You Work with Others?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It can involve investors, the public in the form of an IPO, or even, family members that are backing you. You can also commission growth reports that can stagger or step the amount of investment put into the business in accordance with success, and how much the investor is to receive in profits from the same correlation.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). Here are four principles applied by some of the most successful (and most disruptive) leaders of the new world. Pinterest: Redefining success.

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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

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO. So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day? The screen flickered. We cheered!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. The gentleman was explaining why process orientation is the key to building competitive success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. ” I believe celebrating success is critical, but it’s important to make it personal and authentic.

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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

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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. Their products are early stage, which means daily frustrations as they run through successive iterations. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Companies can disclose these items in the Management discussion and analysis section of their annual report.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

It’s about multiples of revenue or earnings, sales growth, profit margins, and management theory. While Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is major news, it is just another in a long line of illustrations of a basic truth about the primary value of most successful high-tech startups.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

That’s one of the great secrets to the success of AB InBev, the world’s largest beer company. “Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. “It is big.”

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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. And in short order, the company achieved consistent double-digit sales growth — and a successful IPO.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. In a country where owning an apartment is a symbol of success, the ratio of real estate price to annual income is among the highest in the world.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2016

Their ongoing success pushes incumbents to alternately revisit core business assumptions and seek regulatory relief. Successful platforms empower their users. Needless to say, they can share success stories on Facebook. The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It was basically an open-source enterprise, and seemed to owe most of its remarkable success to that openness. Of course, that “success” didn’t come with a lot of revenue. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. It’s just a company, trying to make some money.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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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

APRIL 30, 2012

With the JOBS Act , the rise of international accelerators , the upcoming Facebook IPO , and the mind-blowing $1 billion Instagram acquisition , you can be sure that droves of young, ambitious founders will be jumping on the start-up bandwagon. It's juggling to manage your team, customers, investors, and strategic partners all at once.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

As the book’s title suggests, the people I talked to ended up becoming CEOs of successful companies: one became chief executive of a publicly-listed company, Infosys; another of a large private company, The Weather Company; and a third of a successful startup, Plumbee. billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success. But for an important subset of the business world — firms in pursuit of explosive growth — raising capital from angel investors or venture capitalists is an early step on a long and uncertain road to success. It decreases your odds of success.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” When a data breach happens, there is nothing worse than trying to figure out how to manage the crisis on the fly as it is still happening. Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2017

Our research has shown that 85% of the major barriers that successful companies like Uber face in scaling their business are internal factors — loss of accountability, increasing distance from the front lines, and overload — not external ones like poor markets or ineffective strategies.

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