Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

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. Don’t Kill It!

Process 84

Process IPO Directory Creativity 84

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.

Audience 8

Audience Project IPO Kahneman 8

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. There is a better way.

Crisis 11

Crisis IPO Film How To 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

IPO 8

IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue. They focused on a few enormous projects and did them incredibly well. Staying power is vital for innovation. And they lasted.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

You’ve already put a great deal of work into preparing a solid business case for your project or idea. If you have someone who is interested in growth in Asia, show how your project helps the company grow in the region.” If there are “issues that other projects have had, you should have an answer for those,” says Sheen.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The average amount of capital raised by a Blockchain project through an ICO in 2017 was $13 million; through the third quarter of 2018 it was $25 million. Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. But if that's the focus, it's surely misplaced. These "stakeholder media" aren't always Facebook or Twitter. With my colleagues Luk N.

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It put one of its executives in charge of the project and told him to team up with the head of IT, even though neither had ever run a project this large or complex. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more. The timeline was unrealistic, so the installation took a month longer than planned.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Imagine having put not only your money into a project, but also your sweat, tears, and time. The years of your life you have spent on a project, unlike the capital invested, are always a sunk cost: while money can come back, your youth and most productive years won’t. billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation.

Crisis 8

Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. That seems like a good bet; since the IPO, Facebook's share price has fallen meaningfully. valuation) in favor of trend extrapolation?

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

making changes to my business projections by starting small. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. They all asked exit strategy questions and my answer, naively, was that we would grow revenue and share profits! Most smiled at that, and at the end of the day, I raised nothing. It's something that U.S.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. They link their work to existing priorities , moving opportunistically to join projects already under way.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

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. In a way, it's what drives them to succeed.

Ries 16

Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Furthermore, structural conflicts across functions are common in large complex organizations, leaving peers to fight for finite resources or at odds over projects and issues.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. 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. We will be closely monitoring the social graph for the feedback. That will probably be the tipping point for us.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. Or did you deploy your time and energy resources on another project that was an almost-guaranteed triumph? In one context or another, you've likely failed, too. but it was failure. First, welcome to the club. We've all been there.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. Rather than invest in fancy spreadsheets and measure progress against detailed financial projections, they toss growth estimates out the window and expect companies to iterate their way to a viable position.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. But we also bet it isn't your usual perspective on the world of VCs and IPO lawyers. Open source software enables entrepreneurs to stand up businesses capabilities quickly and cheaply; Sourceforge , for example, is a platform allowing 2.7 We could go on, but we don't need to.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004. capital markets in what is estimated to be one of the largest IPOs ever.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. All eyes are on Twitter, with last night’s announcement that it has filed an S-1 in order to go public.

IPO 8

IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. What compels these companies to IPO prematurely is that they need to provide a liquidity event for their institutional investors, and sometimes for their founders or early employees. Some of them go public before even turning a profit.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Without extra headcount, we’ll need to limit the scope of a project. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

If you define success as an exit from venture capital financing via acquisition or an IPO, female-led startups perform much worse than male-led startups. However, if female entrepreneurs get their funding from VCs solely led by men, their startups will be far less likely to be acquired or make it to an IPO. The big question is why?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

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. A talent magnet.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. The second reason VCs are becoming more interested in ICOs is because of the liquidity of cryptocurrencies.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place. For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S.,

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. Pilot projects with startups and corporate leaders are known to move so slowly that they drain the resources of the startups that they were meant to scale.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Since then, there have been other projects where Huawei experienced severe climate challenges, such as building the highest wireless communication base station in the world (6,500 meters high on Mount Everest) and building the first GSM network within the Arctic circle.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Optimistically, maybe VCs are finding their niche – they’re realizing that certain kinds of investments don’t fit their model, especially capital-intensive, early-stage projects with unproven technology. Pessimistically, VCs are shepherding earlier investments along, but not funding as many new startups.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8