The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

Last year researchers from IESE highlighted the value of corporate venturing. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total.

Venture Funding 126

Venture Funding Short-term Long-term Innovation 126

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Will badges require successful course completion? What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? While recommendation engines have been fantastically successful for the Amazons and Netflixes, they remain relative underachievers given their technical and algorithmic potential. But is it enough?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. It’s not all about venture funding.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Even The New York Times —which, as I’ve noted , has not run its business well— achieved 8% net margins in 2013—not great, but not exactly a tragedy either. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8