Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s not all about venture funding. Our research indicates that many emerging market entrepreneurs prioritize building their skill set or refining their product and marketing strategy over connecting with potential investors. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Seeing the world through the same lens means you can’t anticipate critical questions, factors and influences that should be considered as you think about the market, the product or service you’ll offer, and how to pivot intelligently as your company faces new or unexpected pressures.

Company 13

Company Venture Funding Banking Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

From Product Development to Customer Development. That’s why he advises founders to go out and talk to customers before they start building a product that, they might find out later, no one wants to buy. By the time the flight landed in Chicago, they had already built a simulation of their product on Tilton’s laptop.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Yet more often than not, when innovation occurs, it's a "happy accident" rather than the product of a deep-rooted innovation competence. This is hardly surprising.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies. And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

More of these productive, young firms would mean faster economic growth. If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns. Allocating more resources to the startup economy probably is a good thing.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding IPO Finance Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

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. Data-driven decision-making requires a series of steps best referred to as the "data production line."

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. That helped BlueArc raise another $28 million in VC funds. It had to be.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

And they often lack much of the expertise needed to transform an idea into a viable product. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. The product is in pre-clinical trial today. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. But equity investing and product use are very different things. Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Entrepreneurs tend to be like-minded folks who get along with one another because they value innovation, product development, and business over social and political differences. Entrepreneurship also has the advantage of nurturing that most desirable – if ever elusive – European dream: Integration.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial. As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. Let’s not lose sight of the difference.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems. For years, the company had been focused on product launches to create splash, buzz, and engagement. In exchange, fans got exclusive behind-the-scenes stories.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. The reason why many publishing businesses continue to make money is simple: they’re selling a product that people want and need. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Not only do they enjoy less competition for talent, they also enjoy less competition for funding. I’d like to see how it sounds.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Given the relative dearth of valid, reliable measures of student achievement, few innovative programs can demonstrate their efficacy - so why not select solutions sold by someone you've worked with for years, or buy the products that come with the best give-aways, or purchase from the company everyone has heard of? Regrettably not.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Successful established companies are focused on increasing scale and are often better at scaling proof of concepts than creating new products from scratch.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

So please trust me when I say that one of the biggest roadblocks to job creation is the huge logjam at the patent office that prevents entrepreneurs from getting the patents they need to obtain venture funding. Consider the case of Silicon Valley start-up Innate Immune, founded by world-renowned Stanford immunologist Sam Strober.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. Yet, the bulk of the hospital deaths in India happens outside of the ICUs. Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors. The fear that your products are inferior. The fear that you’re falling behind.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. But if that’s the reason you’re having a networking meeting, you — and your invitee — aren’t likely to get much satisfaction.

Cialdini 8

Cialdini Venture Funding Conference Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Everyone understood that being the flagship client for startups at this stage in their development would attract top startups and give BMW first access to cutting-edge technology, product customization advantages, time-to-market, and pricing, while reducing the risk profile of traditional corporate venturing.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“I learned how to gauge the quality of the work product even if I can’t do the work myself,” she says. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding. “I learned how long it takes to do things, what’s doable, and what’s not.”

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Drop product prices and boost volume growth. Leverage scale and cost efficiencies and export products to neighboring countries. E-Commerce as a Viable Entry Pathway.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Personal productivity both at home and at work will depend on finding ways to integrate how multiple devices work together to amplify individual performance. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In witnessing and being a part of an incredibly vibrant startup culture, from a 15-person early stage startup 2 years ago with no venture funding to our now 100+ person company, I know the real elements of company culture aren''t reflected in the traditional definition nor the top-down approach to culture decks.

Execution 8

Execution Mission Statement Team Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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. The eco-system works really well, and Salesforce.com takes a percentage of the revenues for products built on their platform.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

It will distract the entrepreneur from doing the more important work of getting the venture onto a productive path. According to an analysis of venture fund returns by Harvard Business School’s Josh Lerner , more than half of all VC funds delivered no better than low single-digit returns on investment.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

With so many products that begin as something specialized for the military and then turned over to us every day citizens, it's becoming apparent that drones are on the verge of something big. So what could a drone-based business look like? He was thinking about drones being used commercially roughly half a decade before the FAA woke up to it.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9