Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. Since then, most of the ideas and code that have gone into Facebook have come from the great people we’ve attracted to our team.” He then goes on to explain “the hacker way.”.

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CEO Word of Mouth Marketing Leadership IPO 335

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 15, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

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IPO Software Consultative Career 70

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

However, Shockley becomes increasingly frustrated with Bell Labs management team who passes him over for executive promotions, due to his abrasive leadership style. At the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Dr. Shockley recruits a brilliant team of young scientists and engineers. Shockley Semiconductor Consolidates Great People.

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IPO Leadership Letter Information Technology 197

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. At some point founders need to shift their focus from making the idea real to building a team and then an organization that will make the idea real. Your team and your organization need you to be doing the things that only you can do. You’re not building a team. Take care of your team.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 208

Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The intentional leader succeeds with a clear vision of what needs to be accomplished and communicates this vision to their team. 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.

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Leadership IPO Licensing Books 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO. So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day? The screen flickered. We cheered! Just like that.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

1 priority for the highest achievers today is to lead a personal and professional transformation for themselves and their teams. Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion.

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Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

CEO Insider

JANUARY 13, 2022

And in a hybrid working environment, where it’s more challenging for leaders to directly observe their employees’ working habits and team interactions, the issue of how best to set and assess performance has taken on […]. The post A Balanced Approach to Performance Assessment appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Performance Review Magazine Review Environment 117

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” ” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.”

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Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

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. But a few teams did solve the problem.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. That is a million dollar advice for anyone who is building teams and organizations. This is one book that helped me understand the business of doing business. It offers very interesting insights on some of the most important aspects of building great organizations.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Our team analyzed the age of all business founders in the U.S. 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. ” But is this view correct? Debunking the Myth of the Young Entrepreneur.

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Succession IPO Entrepreneur Biotechnology 15

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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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 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. These same investors expressed no concerns about anyone else on the executive team, all white males. So what exactly can a leader do?

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Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

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. These same investors expressed no concerns about anyone else on the executive team, all white males. So what exactly can a leader do?

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Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO. He found that although 50% of venture capital investors described the management team as the most important factor at the business plan stage, this emphasis had dropped markedly by the IPO stage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

When I sat with the team to explain the decision, I told them it is really hard to be best in class at one thing — and it’s impossible to be best at seven things. The team took some time to absorb the difficult message, but eventually they understood and bought in. ’” Later, Intralinks decided to try to IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. I just didn’t know in what ways.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

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

JULY 21, 2014

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. Marketing was a bit of a nebulous concept for the executive team,” he says. The price tag? An 8-fold increase in the marketing budget.

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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. Regardless of swings in the public markets, Page, Bezos, Immelt, and Rometty expect to stay in their jobs for a while. And they lasted.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Members of her executive team were strong in their current roles but none was quite right for the top job. He is very strategic and his teams would take the hill for him. Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. He might be worth looking at as an option.”

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Tech bloggers had jumped all over the story; many speculated that SimplePay had begun to slow its hiring and scrimp on security investments in an effort to spiff up its balance sheet for a potential IPO. Perhaps the response had been a bit slow, but they’d all done the best they could with the team they had and the money available.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Power of Teams . The job of today’s leaders is most importantly to build leaders within their companies and promote the influential to be the leader of a team. When teams work well , nothing can get in their way.

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Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

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. But to guide your thinking, improve a pitch to prospective investors, or better align your teams, consider these design points: 1.

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Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

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. We could also compete as a team against others, much like playing pick up sports at the park or having poker night.

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Media Company IPO Business Model 15

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. We could also compete as a team against others, much like playing pick up sports at the park or having poker night.

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Media Company IPO Business Model 13

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 juggling to manage your team, customers, investors, and strategic partners all at once.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 15

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.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small. Silicon Valley lore offers examples of exceptional founder-CEOs, such as Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, who were able to lead their companies through an IPO.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year. The company’s legal team advises executives to take a tight-lipped approach, and as a result, no proactive communication steps are taken. Insight Center.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

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. BlueArc’s top team remained confident because they knew the company was strong in three critical areas: The ability to predict the market. Its growth had been derailed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. Verghese and his team believed that they could differentiate the company to global customers like Nestlé by focusing on the end-to-end supply chain, with the goal of managing the whole thing themselves.

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. Thus begins a cycle of frustration in Africa’s tech sector around the ability to hire and retain the right team. I observed their interests.

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