Finance IPO Positioning Technology 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2012
And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. 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).
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2017
Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. With foreign technology companies doing mostly of the trading in Africa, combined with a porous IPR system in the region, tech startups have limited opportunities for acquisition. But for entrepreneurs in developing nations, especially Africa, the exit strategy can be a challenge.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 21, 2014
If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If Does a bar graph, table, or pie chart more effectively present your position? Other companies with slicker marketing were gaining market share even though they had inferior technology,” Mason says. The price tag?
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