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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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The new guys are frequently trying new things that we need to know about.”

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator Innovation 14

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. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Even as we move into an era of large-scale incubation of new ventures by enterprises, in which large, established companies increasingly play the entrepreneurial game, we see this overwhelming instinct to boil everything down to good idea versus bad idea, conclusively and irrefutably. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off.

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. . Beneath that question is a very real worry. The vision thing. Measuring too much.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Talk to venture capitalists and they, too, will tell you how essential they are in leading the charge. It’s a bit like saying that a baseball game is exclusively about the pitcher.

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Innovation Planning Tourism 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. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

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