Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. One of these, startup accelerators, has received a great deal of attention but also little scrutiny. In fact, of the nearly 700 U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Entrepreneurship is conflated with innovation. Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Entrepreneurship ecosystems are not checklists.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Policymakers seem more and more to be looking to play venture capitalist or banker. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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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. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. Know that money only gets you so far.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies obsessively ask that question, because their approach to new ideas is that there are good ones than can be developed into revenue generators, and bad ones that should be abandoned as quickly as possible so as not to waste resources. ” Garth and Annett sold GoCard in 2000. Interesting and dangerous.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. 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?

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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. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop.

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