Eric Jacobson

MAY 20, 2017

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

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

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.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

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

Venture Capitalist How To Public Relations Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. To generate new growth, CEOs must stop thinking of themselves as chief managers and start thinking of themselves as refounders.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. We think cities can do better.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. We hear about these issues often.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Yet the CEO and founder of Fetch Robotics, Melonee Wise, cautions against that way of thinking: “For every robot we put in the world, you have to have someone maintaining it or servicing it or taking care of it.”

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

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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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists. It’s the fundamental starting point for testing whether or not a business idea is feasible.”. A business plan sets out the financial and operational objectives.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Banking Credit Scoring 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Leaders must develop an eye and ear for this weakness – and must try to listen for it in every conversation and look for it in every ops review. One CEO who was constantly entertaining requests from his sales force for changes to the company’s product line – change orders – in response to ‘customer requests.’

Team 50

Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

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).

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The former you can do with a few staffers and the CEO’s blessing, but the latter requires broad organizational support and ongoing effort. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. That guy’s an idiot. I want you to fire him, today.”.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

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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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

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.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Long-term COO Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Gone are the days when the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road were merely an elite cash dispensary. Know that money only gets you so far.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

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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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Last month, in an article in the New York Times on the ever-escalating "war for talent" in Silicon Valley , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a passing comment that has become the entrepreneurial equivalent of a verbal tick — something that's said all the time, almost without thinking.

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Venture Capitalist Sports Engineering Entrepreneur 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He wouldn't approve any further development. In a room filled with marketers and developers, the product manager exploded: "What could I say or show you that would get you to change your mind?". The pitch can be before venture capitalists, brand managers, product review committees and/or the CEO.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Innovation Brand 8

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. ” 6.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Most industries in the U.S.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. It started by sending out a few high potential young employees for scouting and networking.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. Wisely, David advises retaining the trust you've developed by recommending your product only when it's a great fit for their situation. CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales. What kind of homework?

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist How To CIO Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. As the preferred and dominant form factor, developers now start with mobile and extend to the cloud. I'll get to them in a moment.

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Class Venture Capitalist Trends Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more. It’s to fulfill personal curiosity and develop yourself as a person; professional or monetary ROI is a happy coincidence.

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Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in less than a year.

Marketing 9

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

I took an HBS student group to India in 2008 and met with CEOs of public companies, heads of family business groups, and visited Keggfarms , an innovative chicken breeder trying to make a dent in poverty. Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section.

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Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

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. Patience is a rarity. The vision thing.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8