Commitment Finance IPO Operations 
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.
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.”
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 10, 2013
I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Even better. Not" is not a typo.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2013
Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. or you might not. But you how do you get there?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 28, 2017
Now, patent lawsuits can only be brought in the state where the defendant is incorporated, or “where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.” The TC Heartland decision changes that. The Delaware patent lawsuit docket is already packed , so delays will be significant.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 9, 2010
She didn't doubt the franchise owner's commitment to high-quality, holistic care; he was a star pupil in the most recent training course at headquarters. I'm not a finance person, but that seems too soon to me.". Why would an IPO be so bad? Chavez needed another round of training. But Jorge clearly needed further coaching.
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