Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design : Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 28, 2016

And, to be a category king you need to be good at category design : Category design is the discipline of creating and developing a new market category, and conditioning the market so it will demand your solution and crown your company as its king. And, a must-read for CEO's who want to reimagine their businesses.

Venture Capitalist 50

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Like many CEOs, he had had no time to plan his retirement — all his focus had been on running the company. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000. ” It can be especially hard on CEOs who are women. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In a recent conversation, Renee DiResta, a Principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures , noted: “Things that generate recurring revenue are actually more appealing to venture capitalists. Zach Supalla, the CEO of Spark (an open source IoT platform), says, “With the IoT, you can’t think of a company in a vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

CEO Ginni Rometty is leading the company into new areas, betting big on its Watson software and cloud computing. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. The implication for today’s business leaders?

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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. CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. How do you know when someone can make the leap from high performer to CEO? Those selected for development have one universal trait in common: They are by definition high achievers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

That’s product, support, sales, marketing and the CEO/founder coming together to introduce a new solution that solves a real pain point. CEOs need to be on the team, but as players, not coaches. CEOs need to be on the team, but as players, not coaches. Banish pixel polishing. In launch mode, feedback can be hugely valuable.

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