Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s tempting to think that venture capitalists are taking punts on particular technologies in the hope that the few investments that reach the big time adequately compensate for the many that wither on the vine. The projects were collectively backed by 764 different VC firms. Supporting innovation.

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Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 124

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' Why is that? Push to learn in market.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Regard just as valuable evidence that a project won’t pan out as evidence that it will. Innovation Project management'

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Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. I''ll describe both, but first let''s look at what''s wrong with some of the traditional sources of innovation.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 20, 2024

“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.

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Succession Venture Capitalist Directory Entrepreneur 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems. It’s like that.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". Big opportunities exist for organizations challenge existing beliefs, to innovate, and to leverage to create value through new products and services.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Are venture capitalists making significant and lasting investments in your industry? In our experience, few companies track those projects comprehensively, so even just identifying them can be an eye-opening experience.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

The importance of speaking a "foreign" language was reinforced recently when I needed a new slide depicting the gears that drive innovation for one of my speeches. Why cross-disciplinary collaboration drives innovation. He could have worked his way up to manage technical staff, but instead he volunteered to become a project manager.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs. Private vs. Public.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. Failure is a necessary part of a flourishing innovative ecosystem. Innosight benefits directly from one of these programs. Not every idea is destined for greatness.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Handbook Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. EDENS wanted to play a role in making DC more inclusive, while also creating meaningful investment value, reimagining the project as an economic ecosystem rather than a collection of brick-and-mortar buildings.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Projects and portfolios prove reliably superior predictors of professional performance. As one venture capitalist recently remarked to me during a conversation about workplace analytics, “I want my entrepreneurs checking their phones for something more than messages.” Google, for one, no longer uses them.

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Venture Capitalist Self-aware KPI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. And the impact will occur in the next 24 to 36 months, based on the following data and projections: Let's start with Internet access.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. government, which through DARPA and other initiatives stands out worldwide for its astoundingly positive track record in funding true innovation. It also received its early stage finance from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

As one of the two name partners at Andreessen Horowitz , he is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. No wonder that when Ben Horowitz writes what he thinks — about leadership, strategy, or innovation — people like me pay attention. He's also a lot more than a blogger.

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CEO Venture Capitalist Sharpe Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. With luck and ongoing innovation, perhaps the US''s broken education system may be repaired. And what will this mean for the education industry?

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

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. Likewise, manufacturing enterprises could flourish without needing large exurban spaces.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Increase your R&D spending.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Paul Graham is an accomplished entrepreneur and is the founder of Y-Combinator — perhaps the most successful of the start-up incubator projects in recent times. But one can imagine that venture capitalists still won't be thrilled to see a legal liability risk on the two-year-out business plan.

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Software Policies 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 an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. I’m clearly biased in favor of the third type of philosophy about PM (as is venture capitalist Fred Wilson ) as I’ve experienced all three and found the yin-yang to be most effective.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. Imagine you had an idea for a one-week seminar that intersects strategic innovation and design thinking, bringing together world-class speakers, global attendees and unique tools.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Seminar Tourism 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Some of the enormous profits they have made in bitcoin are being channeled back into innovation, as many of them seek to diversify holdings, as well as support the ecosystem in general.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

But it is not another Silicon Valley venture capital firm seeking extraordinary returns from small number of bets with short time horizons. Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. A talent magnet.

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Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

When new ventures are intermingled with the main business, projects usually end up fixing problems in the current business instead of finding new paths to growth. For these ventures to have a better chance at success they need room to take risks and try something different. Redefining Innovation.

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