Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

But the reality for entrepreneurs outside of the established startup meccas is a difficult one: if you start a technology business somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay area, New York, or Boston, you’re stacking the deck against yourself. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But since its spluttering IPO last year, I''ve been coming around to the notion that Facebook is headed for a status more interesting than either flash-in-the-pan or all-conquering global behemoth. So Facebook will keep tinkering: "We''re committed to monthly rollouts of this," she said.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. That country?

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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. So, before you commit yourself to the path of iteration, you need to work on creating a foundation for innovation. What about a novel technology partnership?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. But it was exploiting this technology’s growth potential some years later that put Irwin Jacobs in our top 10 tech CEOs between 1995 and 2014. billion company in 1995 to an $11 billion dollar company in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. Deepen Apple’s commitment to support the educational attainment of the company’s labor force, including those bright young people who serve in Apple Stores.

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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. Why would an IPO be so bad? Beatriz Muñoz-Seca is a professor of production, technology, and operations management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

.” But their participation in cleantech deals also peaked in 2011, and as the authors note, “These companies, with legacy businesses to protect and sustain, are unlikely to expand their involvement and pick up more of the slack in funding disruptive clean technologies.” Perhaps it’s because the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures. Technology is almost always best applied as a solution to a defined market problem. It enables the product to function.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” 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. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

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