Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

You may have a few outliers in the mix, but unless you’ve been deliberate about your networking, the vast majority of people you know probably work in the same field or industry as you. First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Kauffman didn't say it was opting out of venture capital. It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Kauffman didn't say it was opting out of venture capital. It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Maybe that's just the way it is.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

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. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. This is non-negotiable.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, at your local big box electronics retailer or department store. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today. But in a connected world, products are no longer one-and-done.

Business Model 13

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

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).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s an eight-year-old restaurant in an industry where 80% of new entrants fail in the first five years. And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. Most of us aren’t in the restaurant industry. Test your marketing promise.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India. Moreover, the market will double in size as literacy and income levels rise.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. In short, we need the world’s biggest investors to connect with the world’s nimblest investment-technology startups.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. So in 1986, the American government created SEMATECH , a consortium of government agencies, research institutions and private industry. To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

Innovation 15

Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions. will grow to U.S. $5

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Increase your R&D spending.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. But translating an experimentation mindset to the relevant industry conditions is key for innovation in a large corporation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 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. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. Companies in industries with fraying barriers to entry need to think about shifting their focus from fighting upstarts to working with them.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

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. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry. To get a sense, I talked to some venture capitalists, whose profession it is to keep their eyes and minds trained on the future.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 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. Alignment can take a while.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Renee Comet/Getty Images. 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? There are two ways to set revenue targets.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Their behavior displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. And what will this mean for the education industry?

Education 9

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. Some of the most successful venture capitalists, like Andreesen Horowitz have been quite vocal about their strong preference for investing in businesses where the founder is the CEO.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Sharing economy firms are disrupting traditional industries across the globe. The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. chain restaurant industry. billion and Avis at $5.2

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8