Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

And today, the nearly two billion user profiles it captured serve as the backbone for one of the largest advertising businesses ever created. Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. The Challenge of Building an Ecosystem.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

billion before it had even $20 million in revenues) or YouTube (which was sold 19 months after its founding to Google for close to $2 billion), or other companies whose hyper-growth attracted suitors before a viable business model emerged. just acquired for $1.1 But it''s important to consider how incredibly rare these examples are.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model. One example comes from Estonia.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry.

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

And as the shift away from the industrial economy continues, a wider percentage of this institutional capital will go towards innovation startups through a rise in speculative investing , which has been predicted by a number of Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. What makes this a quest is that there is likely no product currently on the market or no existing demand from consumers. Too much is simply unpredictable.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

So I’m well-versed in the challenges of recruiting (and retaining) top technical talent in a tight market. In the early days at Netflix, for instance, when DVDs-by-mail was still our primary business model, I used to look at every expense through a simple framework: How many DVDs would it cost?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

We'll explore three topics related to scale: January : What are market-based approaches to social change, and how to fund them. Venture capitalist Deb Mills-Scofield explores whether developing a business model differs for "social" and "non-social" companies. And this is just the beginning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

At the time the merger negotiations began, AOL was enjoying intense investor interest, to the point where a company that was only 15 years old and had been public for only 8 years had a higher market capitalization than media powerhouse Time Warner. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Business models Strategy Economy'

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Venture Capitalist Business Model IPO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business? The market has a way of taking care of that. The results? billion people who don't have it today.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? As innovation thought leader Steve Blank notes, a startup is a temporary organization searching for a scalable business model. Push to learn in market.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? Imagine a business model where you take two years of courses online with the world''s best teachers, followed by two years in structured problem-solving environments.

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? If publishing is a viable model, why aren’t publishers making money? Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?

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Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” It used to be that business growth led to job growth. They take a social problem, like health, poverty, or the environment, then work on finding a business model that can remedy the problem.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The kinds of shifts we’re talking about have come more naturally to greatly successful startups of the last two decades — Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook among them — and their venture capital investors. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Many sharing economy business models do raise legitimate concerns about user safety, privacy and access. chain restaurant industry.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. Examples include Prophecy, a crowd-sourcing analytics business, and Koneksa, a consumer sensor initiative.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Wealth inequality is on everyone’s minds these days: citizens, political leaders, economists, policymakers and yes, business leaders. Along the way, entrepreneurship rewards smart and risk-tolerant investors (who helped build the success) with wildly above-market (read: unequal) financial returns.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” A great culture allows clever organizations to be more human, to make everything they do more authentic, real, memorable.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Perhaps you've known an entrepreneur, or been that entrepreneur who has pulled together a solid business plan with a perfected pitch and you still have no takers. It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. By using these strategies, clean energy startups can better position themselves for acquisitions and promising exits.

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Most of the so-called unicorns — startups achieving billion-dollar valuations — are platforms: markets that connects buyers, sellers, and others, with the platform standing between them. They’re not. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Long-term Marketing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

In the DVD-rental business, Netflix faced content costs that weren''t appreciably different from those of bigger archrival Blockbuster, and had a much lower-cost delivery system. It''s also betting that once it has established itself as one of the big players in streaming, it won''t go away anytime soon.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Engineering Content Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. stock exchanges.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11