Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Giving its hosts customized information, insight and advice about pricing their property, Coles observed, would lead to better outcomes for Airbnb’s ecosystems. Which users could become 10%, 50% or 100% more valuable with better information, advice or apps? Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

My sense is that any company that finances itself this way is a fraud, so the best advice for executives is probably turn yourselves in. From the evidence of the IPO prospectus it filed last week, Groupon is playing this speculative finance game (it lost $456 million last year, and has $118 million cash in the bank). A lot of U.S.

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Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? The best approach might be to take the advice of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Much of the advice you get during this crisis might seem simplistic. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, three-time mayor of New York City, was fired from Salomon Brothers. Perhaps so.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. The guy doesn't know anybody?

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Venture Capitalist Career IPO Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.," Listen hard.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I've spent the past month doing pitchbooks for a pulp-and-paper IPO that's never going to happen," Anthony said. He had wooed them with assurances that they would be working on the most important mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs in the world, and that they would quickly rise to the director level. The unsolicited advice irked Charles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on. Creating the Venture Client Model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reported that their sales were $59 million in 2010 and rose 40% in the first half of 2011, with the company reportedly heading toward an IPO in the near future. Second, Angie's List has multiple sources of revenue to draw upon, including advertising revenue from highly rated providers. Then consider the benefits.

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Business Model IPO Review Report 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Beyond the allure of today's latest fads and fashions, beyond the advice I and others can give you about money, sex, and power and how to get it all, fast, here are four essential, timeless truths. Let's step out of our neatly-assigned roles for a second — you, reader, I author; you, consumer, I producer.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Holding up a bill in committee or working with others to stall legislation may be difficult to tie to any single person, while other actions can be defended on alternative premises , like coincidence (the idea that conflicts are inevitable among the myriad issues facing Congress) or even that they are based on a stockbroker’s advice.

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