The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2019

Deliver step-change customer outcomes – Whilst not dismissing the culture of continuous improvement that has delivered so many marginal gains for companies, they believe that the kind of change that will take your lunch is what venture capitalists call 10x customer outcomes. It’s change of the substantial kind.

Venture Capitalist 68

Venture Capitalist Company Tips Innovation 68

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition. Hype run wild.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The ongoing poor performance of venture capital firms should be an obvious problem for institutional investors.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

This may seem like an odd statement coming from a entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and professor who has spent the last few years in my role at Carnegie Mellon studying scaling startups and teaching a popular graduate course titled The Science of Growth that was recently turned in as a book.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist Critical Success Factor Entrepreneur COO 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. a leader in virtually every area of advanced technology. The Valley of Death.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Venture capital and private equity firms tend to congregate in certain areas—notably Silicon Valley, New England and New York. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise. The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing. The median holding is five years , some investments take ten years.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

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.

Tips 320

Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't. But times change.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't. But times change.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

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.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. There has to be a better way.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders). in 2011 to 2.9%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

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. Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they''ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

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. Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they’ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Say, toward venture capitalists pouring money into the next photo sharing app. First of all, venture capitalists tend to focus in a few places, in a few sectors. Or Chipotle, $12 billion market value right now based in Denver. I think venture capitalists do play a role.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Company Biotechnology Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

How can these new technologies, solutions, products, and ideas reach not just one community, or even one region, but everyone who needs them? We'll explore three topics related to scale: January : What are market-based approaches to social change, and how to fund them. And poverty, malnutrition, and infant mortality persist.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Think weekly, not quarterly.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., To get a sense, I talked to some venture capitalists, whose profession it is to keep their eyes and minds trained on the future.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

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. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. So what is happening now?

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. government is often portrayed as providing a safeguard against market failure.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” But for the truly great leaders I’ve studied, the people factor is just as vital as the technology or money one.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. Africa has a limited talent pool, particularly in technology fields. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. About the Author.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

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 Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. In fact, most entrepreneurship is based on what I have called "minnovation," small tweaks and excellent execution.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator Innovation 15