Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground.

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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

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. You can't know ex-ante which idea is the right one.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

And of course, peer-to-peer lending has been around for a while, and some of it has been trickling over to startup financing. For the most part, the impact of crowdfunding on startup financing is still minimal. Finally, working capital financing is one of the key requirements of all small startups.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. You can't know ex-ante which idea is the right one.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

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. It also will force the functional service providers to be more market-driven.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value. By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Of course, small startups cannot compete with larger corporations when developing flagship systems like aircraft, but the market has truly opened up for innovators.

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Innovation Software Industry Politics 130

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. At first, Opus 12 targeted the largest addressable market it could find: ethanol, an additive of gasoline.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

New incubators are rising every day and private initiatives like Generation Enterprise and InChallenge are training promising young entrepreneurs. The proponents of Africa’s booming entrepreneurialism – governments, incubators and investors – should pay more attention to the “small dreamer” phenomenon.

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Entrepreneur Incubator White Paper Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Entries into markets triggered more entries, and markets that saw companies fleeing went cold. Noura Al Kaabi.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

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Budgeting Real Estate Incubator Cost 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business. Most of them fail. Many of those efforts failed.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. This is most common in accelerators and incubators, where a new organization is set up as a microcosm of the parent company and made up of people from every major function and discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. The next few years will probably witness an even bigger transition from a business-to-business to a consumer-to-consumer economy: the more we teach people to create, market, and sell themselves, the more we shall prosper.

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

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. Be careful before you take "quickstart" funds or join formal "incubators" within established venture firms. But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea. Basically none of these reasons benefit you.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Fueled by growing demand among entrepreneurs, investors , and consumers , a specialized ecosystem of support has also been emerging around for-benefits, providing tailored legal services , capital markets , management education , technical assistance , performance metrics , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In Kenya six would-be bikers jointly enter Toyota’s Crux Finance scheme, pay down Sh8,000 ($94) each, and start riding for as little as Sh355 ($4.20) a day, often as boda boda taxis. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000. But here again, the market does not always work perfectly on its own.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2019

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

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Budgeting Real Estate Incubator Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance. The same is true of innovation today. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. By the time that substantial U.S. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8