N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. In addition to driving business results you are making time to ensure each team and each individual are doing their own work of personal and professional development. You got funding.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. IPOs dried up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Their product, a program designed to combat procrastination, quickly became the best-selling productivity app on iTunes. I’ve looked up every company that did an IPO in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service.

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Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. Their products are early stage, which means daily frustrations as they run through successive iterations.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Strategic value, on the other hand, has little to do with any of those things and almost everything to do with how a company’s product and/or market position help or hinder another company’s (usually a bigger one’s) ability to be successful. In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5

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Price IPO Wilde Examples 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. That standard may then become a platform for many firms that produce complementary products and their customers. Now they are very focused on making money.

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IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A few weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about people who had opened up their very first investment accounts just to get in on the Facebook IPO. It also seems likely that he's kicking himself today, as the value of the stock has dropped almost 25% since its May 17 IPO. But was that so?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Great universities will spur firms to design and manufacture products locally.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Er brands rely on other products or brands to explain their own. It also puts your brand under constant pressure to introduce new products on Brand X’s time line, because now your brand value is tied to Brand X’s product. That sets the bar quite high, and I understand not every product can be truly new to the world.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Where traditional business models sell products and/or services, matchmaking models sell reduced transaction costs. Choice One means going it alone to build product and find buyers. This same socially shared educational/advisory capability can be seen in SAP’s carefully built developer community. Insight Center.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. It was a highly valued change.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The interesting part of this shift is that VCs are taking a more holistic or "systems" approach to investing than they typically do in developed markets. Because of three significant challenges innovators face in emerging markets: Innovation ecosystems are not well-developed. Why do VCs in emerging markets take a systems approach?

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Their ability to execute. It had to be.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. China's population has developed a significant gender imbalance, with 119 boys for every 100 girls.

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Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

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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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product. 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States. It makes its revenue and profits not on product sales but on advertising and premium services. Customers can only search for products inside the Alibaba website. But here’s the problem: Alibaba has no margins at all.

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Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our research indicates that many emerging market entrepreneurs prioritize building their skill set or refining their product and marketing strategy over connecting with potential investors. Accelerators should help start-ups develop a talent strategy alongside their financial strategy. Related Video. Acknowledge implicit bias.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Indeed, many would-be entrepreneurs who are drawn by the romantic vision of developing a snazzy new app or product pooh-pooh selling as beneath their dignity. Voltaire got the technology down pat but struggled with selling a product that enterprise customers were leery of. I don''t think so. Sale is a big part of scale.

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Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. We're calling it "the failure sector." You get this.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

The GUI challenged the assumption that only computer programmers could harness computers, and gave rise to a slew of new products and businesses. The development of these technologies is setting the stage for machines to think. The types of tools that developers need will change. But more importantly, it’s been shared.

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Software Trends Mass Marketing Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management. No 20,000 tech jobs.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience. I see people building productivity apps who have never heard of GTD, or more importantly Energy Management. No 20,000 tech jobs.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year. Even a rumor of a breach can trigger a communications crisis. A hacker going by the name of ‘Tumbleweed’ enters a forum and brags that the device can be hacked.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. For example, someone that liked electronics development likely wouldn’t jump for an administrative job in a bank with marginal pay difference. I observed their interests.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price.

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