Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. If an organization could isolate a unit and focus it exclusively on the disruptive market, it had an opportunity to succeed. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Back in the 1980s, a company could set itself apart through scale, being the largest company in a category provided leverage over costs, back office processes, distribution, and marketing effectiveness. It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital).

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity. And play he did.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The best professional managers — doing all the right things and following all the best advice — lead their companies all the way to the top of their markets in that pursuit. It had 90 days working capital on hand when he took over — in other words, Apple was only three months away from bankruptcy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The USFD research team engaged 235 households that were willing to let us track their financial lives for a full year. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. When a business, rather than a household, faces such volatility, it responds by building up working capital. households.

Health Care 13

Health Care Insurance Video Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Revenues have stagnated over the last few years, in part because Adam has no ambition to expand into other countries despite the relatively small size of his current market. Our team set out to further explore this question by looking at the 50+ social enterprise companies in our network. Or keep margins healthy? And what about Adam?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. Numerous lessons.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54