article thumbnail

Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable. There has to be a better way.

article thumbnail

How Smart CEOs Use Social Tools to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. Tools like Oblong Industries’ Mezzanine can bring multiple streams of data onto HD displays where they can be easily organized, manipulated, and archived into files that can be accessed for later use.

Tools 8
article thumbnail

Day 3 Davos Snapshot

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting here in the Partners Lounge on the Mezzanine Level of the Congress Center. I am listening to him share his comprehensive findings — soon to be released — on the power of values-based, self-governing corporate cultures as a driver of sustainable growth, innovation, and resiliency.