Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Neumann came under fire after the company’s prospectus filing for the IPO revealed heavy losses and a wide discrepancy in the distribution of power between him and the company’s other shareholders. This method effectively doubled their sales within a month of implementing this strategy – then tripled, and growth continued from there.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It can involve investors, the public in the form of an IPO, or even, family members that are backing you. Well, it is, and it isn’t. Many people believe that entrepreneurism is all about private ventures, that don’t necessarily involve a bank. But why not a bank?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. You may think having an HR/People Strategy is something for down the line. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. People know the strategy and plan to realize the vision. You got funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2023

After its successful initial public offering (IPO), how will the mainland’s first private mental health hospital group grow?

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IPO Succession Health Care Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. How should you interpret the viability of Snap’s strategy amid the many opinions? The conventional wisdom holds that every industry is being disrupted and all the rules have changed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners. Facebook is not Groupon.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Basil Peters, a famous angel investor wrote a book Early Exits - Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (and maybe not VCs). CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. This is called the exit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2019

Why are some networks so much more profitable than others?

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

As of this writing, the world is abuzz with the expected Facebook IPO. The number $100 billion is being floated and passed around (probably by those who stand to benefit from a big IPO), and whether real or wild speculation, that’s a number that gives one cause to pause.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

As you may know, King Digital, the company behind the blockbuster game Candy Crush Saga , is about to IPO. Jim Surowiecki in the New Yorker and Felix Salmon at Reuters (and many, many others) have analyzed the IPO. To date, this has not been their strategy. The company is seeking a valuation of up to $7.6 Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

From there, the authors offer advice including building innovation into job descriptions, and trusting users to inform product strategy. Another look at part of Google’s innovation strategy comes from a 2013 piece on DARPA , the government research agency. Business in the age of Google. Glass, and where Google goes next.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir talk about the Beyond Meat IPO and whether plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger will become mass-market products. They then discuss Facebook’s announcement that it is pivoting to put greater emphasis on user privacy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As a price strategy consultant, it's common for managers and sales people to enthusiastically pitch me on a strategy of "let's get them in the door with a big discount, they'll love our product or service, and then return to pay full price." Embark on a "content is king" differentiation strategy. So what do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But since its spluttering IPO last year, I''ve been coming around to the notion that Facebook is headed for a status more interesting than either flash-in-the-pan or all-conquering global behemoth. Internet Social media Strategy' It''s hard to hate a company that builds "Rage Shake" functionality into its software.

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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. Without any formal authority or role in organizational strategy, Brian drove broad change across the company. It has become increasingly accepted that the work of strategy is no longer conducted solely from the C-suite.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

During the Immelt era, the dominant mode had been of strategy by way of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MA&D), including most recently the disastrous merger of the GE oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2016. In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. For these professionals, a future IPO is outweighed by today’s OPI — the opportunity for positive impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. This is what Henry Mintzberg , a seminal figure in competitive strategy theory, once described as "emergent" or "evolutionary" strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about. So why IPO? That is, the IPO is a good way to get rich, quick. It is likely to be the largest in history (cool). It is predicated on an established business model (good), plus a future growth path into the mobile space that is uncertain ( not so good ).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A few weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about people who had opened up their very first investment accounts just to get in on the Facebook IPO. It also seems likely that he's kicking himself today, as the value of the stock has dropped almost 25% since its May 17 IPO. Pursue a long-term strategy.

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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. Innovation Strategy execution' Staying power is vital for innovation. Consider the industry I call home, enterprise software.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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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. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says. 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. Address your audience’s concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But there was one problem: my business plan had no exit strategy. They all asked exit strategy questions and my answer, naively, was that we would grow revenue and share profits! also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. It's something that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO. Post-IPO, GM isn't seen as spending taxpayer money on advertising. Its new communications strategy is to run few corporate ads and to focus instead on the individual brands. Running it on Thanksgiving Day was appropriate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. Their success is a reminder that the conventional wisdom that basketball is a game for young people doesn't always apply.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

No strategy is static. Coles, speaking at Boston University’s recent Platform Strategy Research Symposium, emphasized that helping participants become better entrepreneurs was essential to the platform’s overall success. The platform investment model, however, creates multi-sided surplus — more value to sell.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Our research has shown that 85% of the major barriers that successful companies like Uber face in scaling their business are internal factors — loss of accountability, increasing distance from the front lines, and overload — not external ones like poor markets or ineffective strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. Their success is a reminder that the conventional wisdom that basketball is a game for young people doesn't always apply.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our research indicates that many emerging market entrepreneurs prioritize building their skill set or refining their product and marketing strategy over connecting with potential investors. Accelerators should help start-ups develop a talent strategy alongside their financial strategy. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This simple strategy proved wildly successful. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal. Both strategies are evident in the case of Gerstner and IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Branding Marketing Strategy' By positioning the brand between value-oriented mass brands and exclusive boutiques, the company attracted the attention of a certain type of shopper — and its success (consistent double-digit growth and a $2.6

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