Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea. 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.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too.

Morale 12

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 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

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. In fact, in developing countries no tech and low tech startups actually usually create more jobs than high tech startups (think Starbucks or IKEA vs Google or Apple). the total spending on entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries is still miniscule.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. They weren’t designed to offer the guidance and support for the varying stages of development — from concept to formed company — that our projects would be in. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. Your competitor has strengths, and you have different strengths.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy. The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. The result is a large-scale market of technological mediocrity. Regrettably not.

Education 14

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. They believe that the API improves user experience and makes product development both quicker and simpler. Venture investors look for home runs.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s top team remained confident because they knew the company was strong in three critical areas: The ability to predict the market.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 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. Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Aren’t publishers failing?” Publishing start-ups are hot.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., 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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Drop product prices and boost volume growth.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income. What do they all have in common?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Research we have conducted has revealed a variety of new, highly impactful investment approaches that can help accelerate the pace of the development, approval, and commercialization of new cancer therapies. In this approach, drug discovery is developed around a specific disease and is financed by the efforts of a disease-focused foundation.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Venture Funding Finance Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities. ” Sure, I would respond.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

All these industries were created by startups, many of whom used their precious patents to secure funding from venture investors — and then used that funding to hire the people needed to develop the new products, services and medical cures that constantly refresh U.S. prosperity.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Investors are already keenly focused on this area, with many startups competing for a slice of the market. A third growth area is in EHRs and digital health applications.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Both problems have resulted in a highly unstable, volatile world order that jitters and shocks markets periodically, leaving financial carnage and mass scale human suffering. We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Incubator How To Venture Funding 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? If the world of venture capital can change radically in one year, what else can we transform? Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8