Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If we are going to nurture leaders within organization we must supply them access to mentors, role models, challenges, feedback and the ability to learn from mistakes and successes.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint). Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. In fact, in-person pitches may now be a thing of the past.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. Last year, venture capital investments in clean tech totaled a mere $2.8 billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

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. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems. It''s like that. Ready to Innovate?

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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. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. The Union Market challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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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. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurs trying to make a business idea work will do anything within their power to buy extra time: run up bills on personal credit cards, take out home equity loans, or find consulting projects to cover a few more months of experimentation. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

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? Push to learn in market. Most venture capitalists don''t hand out funds on a quarterly or yearly basis, as most corporations do when they fund ongoing operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

While the joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that helped us navigate the economic crisis," explained Chairman Azim Premji , "with the market exploding now, there is a need for a simpler, leaner organization. We hope the organizational change will result in faster growth." It's time to focus."

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

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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. Eric Schmidt was the perfect Peacetime CEO — a "gregarious and articulate" leader who was adept at "expanding the market and reinforcing the company's strengths."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Even gridlock in Washington has not stopped the economy from progressing. Upgrade skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. This has proven to be a challenging domain to automate and most of the projects are behind schedule. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. So what is happening now?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. The latter are the ones funding the capital-intensive and highest-risk projects. government is often portrayed as providing a safeguard against market failure. In a business context, the U.S.

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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. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 Titans of capitalism such as venture capitalist John Doerr and GE CEO Jeff Immelt are speaking out in favor of a price on carbon, to drive energy innovation. trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. ” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

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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 once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. As projects advance and coalesce, new teams form to gather the skills and priorities needed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. Introduce a "10% version" of the offering in a highly contained market. Participants would build businesses in real time and get feedback — and potentially funding — from venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In addition to risk from financial market fluctuations, there exist risks from geopolitics, climactic events, and social movements, such as occupy Wall Street, not to mention, risks from cyber threat and other forms of terrorism. Standard financial market models leave out fine-grained institutional details of how trades are executed.

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Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Both of these structures create really important learning labs that help bring ideas to market. New ventures in large organizations often fail because the same group charged with maintaining the core business is also given the responsible for new ventures. Refocusing Resources.

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