Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. ” What a powerful image. . ” What a powerful image.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Especially right now. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. Big data is enjoying unprecedented attention, with more than $1 billion invested in it in the last year alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

He flew to New York to attend the Wearable Tech Expo and asked questions about who bought wearables, how the sales cycle worked, and what technical specifications he would need to achieve with regard to power consumption, accuracy, and robustness. Each insight led to a better product. The Future of I-Corps. Those are impressive results.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

This reversal is shifting the balance of power. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. This new world is disorienting because pipes and people work very differently as channels. Pipes flow out; people flow in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2 costs quite dramatically over the next decade. Yet, the bulk of the hospital deaths in India happens outside of the ICUs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., The "space race," "cold war," "war on poverty," and many other initiatives created powerful and natural new markets for entrepreneurs (and big companies as well) to compete in.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Many of them started off selling merchandise from their apartments or homes, and some evolved to become power sellers. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance. It raised $60 million in venture capital, and eventually failed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. Take Claus Moseholm, co-founder of GoViral , a Danish company created in 2005 to harness the then-emerging power of the Internet to deliver advertisers’ video content in viral fashion. The advice VCs give isn’t always that good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding. In a 2009 blog post , you can feel the nascent thinking about just how powerful a drone-based network could be for businesses in the not-too-distant future.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. Mate a 500 HP engine with a set of nearly bald tires and most of that power will get wasted. Imagine a car motor that lacks a transmission, timing belt, water pump, or starter.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

As President/CEO of Neighborhood Centers in Houston, Angela has created a powerful model for community redevelopment with national, global application. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. Lesson: Non-commissioned work is powerful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

He insisted that the "first to invent" patent system gave his firm the time not only to determine which were the best inventions to pursue without squandering the firm's precious resources, but to secure venture funding as well.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. Wide use of soft power to address hidden barriers to entrepreneurialism. A hospitable environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use. Democratic, distributed capitalism will allow the pendulum to swing back and hand power back to the value creators. Mercantile capitalism has hit its limits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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