Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. Typically, it is about your team, market opportunity, technology/product, or market results/ traction. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms. I call it the killer slide.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. What are some ways to cultivate and develop this skill? Digital innovation is the answer to everything. It’s as much by the actions leaders perform as anything else.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

One could certainly be forgiven for not recognizing such a picture, especially if you’re a regular reader of the technology press, which features a daily exposition of the vast sums being raised by startups around the world. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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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.

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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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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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).

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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. As students of disruption realize, a new technology is never a disruption on its own.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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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." This is the reality of artists, musicians, community organizers, many of them non-techies, working side by side with techies to hack not so much technologies but ways of working, living, creating, and organizing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., To get a sense, I talked to some venture capitalists, whose profession it is to keep their eyes and minds trained on the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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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? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

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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). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Can the elephant dance again?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? Specialized trade shows and conferences such as the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference that draw fringe players and startups can provide unusual perspectives on future technologies and are refreshingly devoid of consultants and other CIOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. SXJapan panel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Nor am I blind to the problems facing business schools and higher education at large, or lacking in my enthusiasm for technology. All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Sometimes development involves affirmation. Business education Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers?

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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. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The idea seems simple enough: you start with an initial venture concept, put together a team, and launch the venture. You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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. In fact, most entrepreneurship is based on what I have called "minnovation," small tweaks and excellent execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

This isn't because organizations can't identify new opportunities or develop new and novel concepts; many can and do. It was quite popular to established research laboratories and skunkworks operations that would allow employees to focus on technologies and offerings intended to grow the business. Reframing Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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? In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. But is all of that changing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. government's risky investments have had for technology-based corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. For example, the outposts of a pharma company develop and distribute a company-wide newsletter of the latest trends and news from the hotspot.

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