Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Some kids are skipping college entirely and heading straight into business, pointing to the success of dropouts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. since 2000.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

By positioning the brand between value-oriented mass brands and exclusive boutiques, the company attracted the attention of a certain type of shopper — and its success (consistent double-digit growth and a $2.6 billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. How – personality.

Brand 9

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. It depends on the partners in the fund, their prior levels of success, their personal balance sheets, and their stage in life.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

As Diane Mulcahy explained in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article : ”Angel investors — affluent individuals who invest smaller amounts of capital at an earlier stage than VCs do — fund more than 16 times as many companies as VCs do,” she wrote, “and their share is growing.” Steven Moore.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

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.

Banking 13

Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. In early 2013, Norwegian went public and became one of the most successful IPOs of the year, closing the year 87% above its IPO price. Sheehan’s strategy has worked. Having successfully survived the crisis of overload, Norwegian is a leader again.

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? 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. LinkedIn has surged over 100%.

IPO 9

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. If innovation is the story of Apple’s success, we need the widest possible diffusion of that innovation for our society to benefit. Social innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. First, more digital innovators should recognize that public policy is essential to the success of the digital economy. Within the digital entrepreneurship sector, IPOs and exits have not been keeping pace with the record sums of capital being pumped in.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. billion in 2013. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The enterprise was a hotspot of disruption, with WorkDay having one of the most successful IPOs of 2012, Square establishing itself as a clear leader in the race to develop disruptive payments solution, and Kiva Systems' $775 million acquisition by Amazon.com validating its disruptive warehousing solution. 3-D printing.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. With its success, Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma are making the case for a strategy approach that has fallen out of favor in the U.S. But Alibaba doesn’t look much like Facebook, Google, or even Amazon.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12