The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. In other words, they’re looking at whether the engagement will improve their core business, and whether they have the skills and resources internally to cultivate an effective relationship.

Incubator 90

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 90

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. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Digital technologies promise to transform health care. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Any Americans, British, and Europeans who are apprehensive about low-skilled immigrants pouring into their cities, should take heart in the stabilizing force of job creation. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Some key skills and strategies accelerate the shift from pipes to people: 1) Don''t talk, listen. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. The results?

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14