Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Aligning our reading (all information intake) with our stated values and goals is a topic I’d love to see put into some type of hour-long workshop (hint, hint). Thanks for bringing this topic up, it’s important!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Often, venture capitalists help young, digitally native businesses achieve this rigor by identifying key metrics surrounding user activity, registration, and engagement that will help approximate the value of data over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

We shouldn’t reform the patent system, they say, because there is no evidence that trolls are hindering innovation; these calls are being driven just by a few large companies who don’t want to pay inventors. Another survey of venture capitalists found that 74% had companies that experienced “significant impacts” from patent demands.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care. Tightly align training, systems, and protocols throughout the medical community to ensure more consistent care and diagnoses, eliminating variations related to the type of imaging or testing performed, who performed it, or who read the results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. That failure is not due to a lack of trying.

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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., ’ the system used hundreds of scoring engines, and all the hypotheses were fed through the different engines and scored in parallel.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” And three or so key results.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Venture capitalists are often “pattern matching”, thus actively looking for someone who looks like the successful founders of Google, FaceBook, Amazon, or Apple. For we are all at risk when your system excludes. But bear with me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

The improvised cable system reaches almost every corner of the country, but payment problems are endemic, with layers of wholesalers, sub-distributors, and others misreporting sales and delaying payments. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products.

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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). Why do VCs in emerging markets take a systems approach?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. None of these institutions existed before 2009, and they were all, in whole or in part, created in response to what is slowly being recognized as a deep hole in our entrepreneurial system.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. Is the "cloud" just a passing phase?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

There are clearly still major systemic changes that need to occur for women to achieve parity. A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." But breaking through a ceiling implies a "storm the citadel" approach, requiring major changes to a system that may not be willing to acknowledge that a problem even exists.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. These factors have regularly surfaced in my interviews with people like Netflix founder Reed Hastings, or the team inside Starbucks that built their wildly-successful mobile ordering system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. It started by sending out a few high potential young employees for scouting and networking.

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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. This opens up possibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Explaining changes in the company's elaborate system of boards and councils, a structure designed to turbo-charge collaboration, Chambers said, " Many say that in the face of this expansion, Cisco needs more discipline. John's Chambers' recent announcement about simplifying lines of authority is another case in point. It's time to focus."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Our system is at risk due to increasing inequality.”. For sure, without a system that ensures merit-based mobility, inequality can become a canker that infects and spreads. “Inequality is dangerous.” “Our Unfortunately, simpleminded thinking and insensitivity are often clouding the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Increasingly, I've heard people at large companies ask how to create human resource systems that support innovation. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Why does the patent system need reforming? But one can imagine that venture capitalists still won't be thrilled to see a legal liability risk on the two-year-out business plan. Here is a write-up from Wired.) His essays and thoughts about the tech sector are always worth reading. Graham's latest focus is patent reform.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. Another challenge is that this financial information has become widely known and shared, meaning that the investor insights it affords are hardly unique.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Titans of capitalism such as venture capitalist John Doerr and GE CEO Jeff Immelt are speaking out in favor of a price on carbon, to drive energy innovation. And finally, Nelson said, companies must pursue sustainability goals in more systems-level ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college. But in his first decade at the school, Evans spotted and attracted an extraordinary group of graduate students, including the later cofounders of Pixar, Netscape and Adobe Systems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. There’s no perfect system to pre-validate demand for a product or service, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your due diligence. Business failures are costly.

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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. There's the question of how to develop robust legal, regulatory, and financial infrastructure (including payment systems).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. A crucial question to be answered is not just whether the present system is geared toward the government showing a lot of the entrepreneurial courage, but why it is systematically badmouthed, despite its many successes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. The drivers not only helped to relieve a burdened and unreliable shuttle system, but also provided a pleasurable experience for attendees who may not have set foot in a Chevy in decades. SXJapan panel. Apple's "Pop-up" store.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In the United States, our higher education system is broken. We can extrapolate from this survey that the employer demand for online education exists — and, moreover, that it is only a matter of time until universities and well-funded venture capitalists will respond to this white space in the market very soon.

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