N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs have historically taken one of two approaches to IT. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. Most think of IT as a “necessary evil.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

New tools, resources, and intermediaries are allowing a new generation of serious entrepreneurs to begin to bridge the worlds of hacker space and industry. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This is simply due to the fact that more people want to hear what a high profile CEO or entrepreneur has to say. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

My coauthor and I set out to find some answers, particularly for science and engineering. scientists and engineers with undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral degrees in science and engineering. Scientists and engineers may also take such jobs because they have lost interest in their original field of study.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I learned a valuable lesson: Entrepreneurs need to have plans in place for investors to exit, especially in developing countries. Most are gone after about four to eight years, and entrepreneurs need to present a clear path for that to happen.

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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. Angel Investors are not the reason more entrepreneurs are thinking small. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality.

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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. Angel Investors are not the reason more entrepreneurs are thinking small. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. European taxpayers have funded much of the brainpower that stimulated technological innovation and economic growth in the U.S. Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Most VCs and entrepreneurs believe start-ups are inherently iterative, that a string of mistakes doesn't prevent success, but may even be the path to it. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0; Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Talk to other entrepreneurs, but only accept advice from the successful. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Be willing to be scattered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Sales of electric cars are limited without batteries and charging stations, but how much of this could one entrepreneur, even billionaire Elon Musk of Tesla, fund and disseminate himself? Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Entrepreneurs often perceive a short window of opportunity. Consequently, entrepreneurs have a sense of urgency that is seldom seen in established companies, where any opportunity is part of a portfolio and resources are more readily available. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Seth Godin’s Blog : The best-selling author, entrepreneur and “agent of change” gives you personal insights on the leadership landscape. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Alexa Rank : 5,678 (HBR) Google Page Rank : 6 (HBR) PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 0 TwitterGrader Score : 99.3

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Similarly, some retailers have begun experimenting with Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which allows customers to collect and pay for items without requiring a checkout service. In education, there was a rapid shift towards online lecturing, with some jurisdictions even hosting exams virtually. Unnecessary hurdles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. So that's where entrepreneurs and GM-types tend to migrate. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

A significant part of innovation and almost all of commercialization is driven by profit incentives and relies on a system of protection for the intellectual property rights of innovators and entrepreneurs. Allocating our best talents to finance risks damaging the long-term innovative capacity of our economy. This is what the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. Developing personalized choice engines. The personal choice engine pings you with just-in-time notifications when you check into an eatery that has been flagged for violations or shut down.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There’s a sense that it’s up to us to get the country back to work, and that’s driving entrepreneurs to Detroit, Baltimore, Providence, and any number of cities that have struggled with unemployment. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. It takes longer to raise money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. Having the team hear customer feedback firsthand was a big change, especially for the engineers. The feedback was hard for the engineers to hear, but it made a huge impact on them. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Different operational skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. They think big.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Women entrepreneurs, coders, social networkers and computer engineers alike can find particular pride and inspiration of these 5 women below. This Internet entrepreneur and business executive is currently the Chief Operating Office at. formerly) unexplored frontier with a Rosie the Riveter ferocity. Sheryl Sandberg. Her advice?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

First-time entrepreneurs lack the seasoning to captain a steady ship through turbulent waters. Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing.

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