Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Unfortunately, Microsoft tied its tablet concepts to its Windows operating system and made them merely pen-enabled personal computers, so these products remained a tiny niche of the computing industry. If its ambition was to improve on current products in tiny increments, venture capitalists would ignore them.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

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. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

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? Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Remember, collaboration is overrated if you haven't got the right project. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 13

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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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

This frustration is compounded by the fact that the usual levers senior executives use to get things to go faster — creating tight deadlines, flooding the project with resources, checking in more frequently — don''t seem to work, and in many cases cause teams working on disruptive ideas to actually go slower. Why is that?

Innovation 11

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In a similar vein, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ben Horowitz described the succession from Eric Schmidt to Larry Page at the head of Google as a necessary return to command and control as the company shifts from a "peacetime" unbridled growth environment to a "wartime" situation in which they are challenged from all sides.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

When new ventures are intermingled with the main business, projects usually end up fixing problems in the current business instead of finding new paths to growth. For these ventures to have a better chance at success they need room to take risks and try something different.

Productivity 13

Productivity Products Venture Capitalist Innovation 13

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. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. EDENS wanted to play a role in making DC more inclusive, while also creating meaningful investment value, reimagining the project as an economic ecosystem rather than a collection of brick-and-mortar buildings.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. The crowdfunding service Kickstarter reached an important milestone last week.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The first question to answer is how much of the success in a given field, or for a given project, is due to chance. Evidence of the role of chance often comes in the form of high variance of performance – a right-skewed distribution of project outcomes. Here are three answers. The role of chance in determining performance .

Career 8

Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

As industrial era companies, from Mattel to GE, start to transform into software-enabled businesses, executives stand to benefit from understanding three principles that drive venture investors. Venture capitalists never expect their work to be repaid evenly. ” It a necessary piece of venture investing.

Execution 8

Execution Venture Capitalist Software CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

With the world's population projected to swell to 9 billion by 2050, it is apparent that companies and countries must figure out how to provide a high quality of life to many more people using drastically less "stuff.". These partnerships are focused on finding and implementing operational and policy-level sustainability solutions.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

According to Rafael Reif, MIT''s president, who spoke at the Davos conference this past January, there are three major buckets that make up the total annual expense (about $50,000) of attending a top-notch university such as MIT: student life, classroom instruction, and projects and lab activities.

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Are venture capitalists making significant and lasting investments in your industry? In our experience, few companies track those projects comprehensively, so even just identifying them can be an eye-opening experience. Only one out of about 30 different projects was clearly an effort to bring a new offering to a new market.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

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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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems. operations. Helena told him she was sorry, but it was out of the question.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. I’m clearly biased in favor of the third type of philosophy about PM (as is venture capitalist Fred Wilson ) as I’ve experienced all three and found the yin-yang to be most effective.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Just as venture capitalists are taking a hard look at this new phenomenon, so should we all. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. But being part of a team wasn’t enough for high impact, as measured by article and patent citations.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc. We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. Startups inject new technical expertise, and venture capitalists offer funding and access to new talent.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest. The community owning the project often comes to feel a sense of ownership for the projects that they support.

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Venture Capitalist Project Diversity Technology 8