N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. If you are tired, overworked or rushed, you are making mistakes and the power of your position amplifies the negative impact of those mistakes. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company. You got funding. Congratulations! What could go wrong?

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi ’s book “ The High Performance Entrepreneur ” has shaped up my entrepreneurial thinking to a very large extent. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Process IPO Directory Creativity 84

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks. IPOs have huge costs and risks.

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IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. Would that happen in your organization? How do they do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

The age finding is similar using firms with the fastest sales growth instead, and founder age is similarly high for those startups that successfully exit through an IPO or acquisition. In the meantime, it appears that advancing age is a powerful feature, not a bug, for starting the most successful firms. But What About Steve Jobs?

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Succession IPO Entrepreneur Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

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Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But it’s more than simple disregard for the quarterly pressures of the public markets that powers these industry behemoths. All of their leaders have staying power. Staying power is vital for innovation. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail).

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Its value growth is powered by the network in place, not by increments of operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

A study on CEOs giving IPO road-show presentations found that even hardened financial advisors judge a leader’s “competence and trustworthiness” within as little as 30-seconds. These snap judgments are so powerful, CEOs who rated the highest for their executive presence in the study enjoyed higher IPO valuations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. The IPO, the new regulations, and a call for Dr. Yunus's retirement from Grameen Bank have led some to doubt the whole notion of microfinance. Such is the power of microfinance. Is it her fault that she is illiterate?

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Microfinance IPO Bottom-up Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Of the 400 top global universities, only three are in Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Its IPO is “ unusual.” ” The IPO will finally put a market value on Twitter—is it $10 billion? So does this mean Twitter is being overvalued as a new media brand as it approaches its IPO? News of this has created a fresh round of pontification across digital media. There are already winners and losers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Maybe a slimmed-down GE with only aviation, power, and renewable energy businesses will be able to focus on the strategy task of improving the customer competitiveness of that portfolio. Good luck with that, GE and Trian! Remember, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result.

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TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress. Before the company’s $155 billion IPO in 2014 — the largest initial public offering in history — he observed, “we want to help small businesses grow by solving their problems.” What really makes them work?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential. We call these types of issues “pandas.”

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Instead they’re “spiky” in how they allocate funds and they invest big in three areas: game-changing capabilities, next-generation leaders, and next generation business models: They use the power of 10X—a willingness to commit 10 times the normal resources—on their critical capabilities.

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

The real power of his presentation, she says, was in the strength of his narrative. Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. But sometimes simpler can be better, says Duarte.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. Randy Nelson, who spent years as the influential dean of Pixar University , loves to talk about what it's like to be surrounded by "wildly talented individuals" of the sort who work at a company as rich, powerful, and successful as Pixar.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. There is actually a simple cure for this Buzzword Bingo.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

That mentality, Manjoo warns, can easily lead to powerful new breakthroughs being killed prematurely. If you haven't been invited to the White House or launched an IPO or made the cover of a national newsmagazine before age 35, there's absolutely no reason to believe you can't still accomplish those goals later in life.

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IPO Creativity Comparison Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

A distinctive mission and values can be a powerful – and inimitable — way to connect with people. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Instead of – or in addition to — differentiating on the what of your brand, use the why, who, and how. Why — purpose and values.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

With the JOBS Act , the rise of international accelerators , the upcoming Facebook IPO , and the mind-blowing $1 billion Instagram acquisition , you can be sure that droves of young, ambitious founders will be jumping on the start-up bandwagon. It's been a banner year for start-ups. They overestimate the glamour and underestimate the grind.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 16

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Power of Teams . It means being an excellent communicator in every facet of business life, from short rides on the elevator to IPO roadshows, from team meetings to industry events, and everything in between. He says, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

At first blush, it seems relatively easy to build an algorithm that has greater predictive power than the personal credit scores that some lenders continue to use as their primary small business credit indicator. In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

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Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Investing in linked ventures simultaneously can get VCs in and out more quickly, at a time when global markets are not highly liquid and IPOs are delayed for long periods. Reverse innovation of venture capital is a powerful illustration of how emerging markets can drive healthcare innovation.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

” In a recent Strategic Management Journal study with a sample of more than 6,000 companies, Wasserman discovered that founders who keep a powerful central role in their startup as it grows — controlling the board or the CEO position, or both — can harm the firm’s prospects, reducing pre-money valuation by up to 22%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Microsoft, meanwhile, was scarily powerful — the company that was going to assimilate the Internet, Borg-style , and force us all to pay tribute. But Facebook has also risen so quickly to ubiquity that it can seem inordinately powerful. So let''s get this straight: Facebook is either totally over , or all-powerful.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

But the agenda needs to keep pace with what is influencing business, and amongst the things that board members need to fully appreciate is the growing influence and power of social media. Does it understand the power of opinion that can be quickly massed? It is not just about political uprisings any more.

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Media IPO Reputation Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

And then many other companies that have IPO’d in the last decade, like Visa, which connects cardholders and merchants, and Facebook, which connects friends, advertisers, and developers. Today, though, matchmakers are turbocharged — powered by the cloud, broadband, microprocessors, software, and other modern technologies.

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Participative Business Model IPO B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

So how do the powers that be break out of that cage and resolve these dilemmas? In a radically decentralizing world, we are the powers that be. And only then will we have the power to wrestle this great Capitalists' Dilemma, the beast tearing savagely through the global economy, finally to the ground. They don't.

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Globalization IPO Decentralization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

At first blush, it seems relatively easy to build an algorithm that has greater predictive power than the personal credit scores that some lenders continue to use as their primary small business credit indicator. In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Berthold Huber, a former chairman of the powerful IG Metall labor union, was serving only as acting chairman. Ferdinand Piech , a long-serving former CEO of the Volkswagen group and a member of the Porsche family (the two branches of which own 31.5%

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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The economic power of large corporations is growing, not shrinking. Unicorns are to business journalists what Kim Kardashian is to Instagram users. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle.

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