Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Determine the Cost of the Operation. You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor. Angel investors are high-value individuals, and venture capitalists are companies. Otherwise, schedule a conference call. Part 2 Create a Business Plan. Part 5 Building Infrastructure. Find an Office.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2011
I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. The by-now-standard, Christensen-inspired corporate response to disruptive innovation is to create a separate operation, with different incentives and structure than the parent organization, to exploit the innovation.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Apart from the website, the BMW Startup Garage team also stays in regular touch with leading venture capitalists and regularly appears at international conferences, as well as hosting their own startup events.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2012
Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2012
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. A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. The conversation took place at an inaugural conference called Platform , created by Hank Williams after a provocative series that Soledad O’Brien did on CNN on black entrepreneurship. That VC might not even take the meeting. But bear with me.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
According to Rafael Reif, MIT''s president, who spoke at the Davos conference this past January, there are three major buckets that make up the total annual expense (about $50,000) of attending a top-notch university such as MIT: student life, classroom instruction, and projects and lab activities.
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