Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. Alphabet will have a longer time horizon, which will allow it to take on “moon shot” projects, and it is unlikely that it will sell the companies it incubates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 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.

Christensen 16

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 16

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. Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. Noura Al Kaabi.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. Instead of solely funding and incubating startups just to disrupt existing players, in this new model, VCs become crucial bridge-builders between new technologies and talent, and the CEOs of incumbent industry leaders.

Innovation 10

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In order to strengthen your regional entrepreneurship ecosystem, it is necessary to establish co-working spaces, incubators and the like. There is no systematic evidence that co-working spaces contribute significantly to growing ventures.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. .” That was the predominant sentiment I heard a little more than five years ago when I told U.S.-based The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8