N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
billion market valuation. In addition, with little differentiation and a bevy of rivals, marketing costs are skyrocketing. Will Groupon's current business model generate wild future growth? After a barrage of Hollywood-worthy hype, shares of Groupon started trading last Friday. Consumers, of course, love big discounts.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2018
Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. Strategic value, on the other hand, has little to do with any of those things and almost everything to do with how a company’s product and/or market position help or hinder another company’s (usually a bigger one’s) ability to be successful.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2014
Or, in Kamchatka, you’ll find ecotourism ventures by Wild Salmon River Expeditions , initiated by an alliance between a former American military officer and his Russian associates. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)
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