Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Venture funds create a basic thesis about what industries will grow, and then they place a lot of inexpensive bets and give start-ups leeway.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Nearly all pointed to both the quality of the founding teams and HR risk as important factors — regardless of where the venture is based. It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

These future-oriented Deere managers believe that frequent monitoring of motivation has become as essential to understanding the health and functioning of their teams as operational and financial metrics are to understanding whether the business is firing on all cylinders.

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And as I’ve argued before , it’s certainly tempting to imagine that your Batman-and-Robin duo might be the team to beat the odds but it’s just not going to happen (at least for 99.998 percent of new entrepreneurs). The first issue is sharing the same blinders.

Company 13

Company Venture Funding Banking Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

This time, Suresh and his team decided that instead of reorganizing how things worked inside the NSF, they would help scientists become entrepreneurs themselves, using a model that had already worked wonders in Silicon Valley. 81% of the entrepreneur teams are still active 13–21 months after taking the course.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

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. This rapid feedback, high-touch model provides high value to our clinical teams. It offers mentoring, development support, and funding customized to each project’s needs.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It put one of its executives in charge of the project and told him to team up with the head of IT, even though neither had ever run a project this large or complex. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Blue Arc’s R&D had a track record of success; it was a proven team.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Across more than two dozen managerial teams, there were no more than one or two takers. Obviously, criteria need to be established about types and sizes of investments, but if run like a real venture fund this kind of approach can attract people who have the right mentality and energy both from inside and outside the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Funding Follow-up 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. They should take their teams and regularly walk the aisles of Whole Foods, which is as much a greenhouse incubator of the hottest new brands as it is a retailer.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Because of the limited investment that accelerators offer companies (usually less than $40,000), they can evaluate business plans and founding teams more quickly than traditional venture investors with arguably less risk.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

The two most important principles that emerged are that customers make the best brand advocates, and entire organizations make for the best marketing teams. Internally, treat your entire organization as your marketing team. Externally, empower your customers to be brand advocates.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Brand new research conducted just last year by multiple teams of economists confirmed what many entrepreneurs such as myself had long suspected: startup businesses are responsible for all of America's new job growth. But I must take issue with your claim that "None of us can predict with any certainty.where the new jobs will come from.".

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Face your fears.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Apart from the website, the BMW Startup Garage team also stays in regular touch with leading venture capitalists and regularly appears at international conferences, as well as hosting their own startup events. The venture client approach also gives them real-world feedback on their products and services.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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. A shared alma mater, hobby, or professional interest can quickly get the person to see you as a peer and someone “on their team.”

Cialdini 8

Cialdini Venture Funding Conference Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., 4000 new jobs later, the mayor''s office has spent virtually no money, fielded only a virtual team, and, with one exception, offered no monetary incentives to locate there.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps they also come across this way because most are created by founders, CEOs or select members of executive teams. Do founders and executive teams affect culture? It''s why our executive team didn''t write our culture deck, and it''s why we fear not the looming hiring challenges that Boston tech companies face. Absolutely.

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 team then decided to take their domain knowledge and start Apptus as a cloud-based contract management software company.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Instead of forcing people to overwhelmingly focus their time and attention on a single screen, broadcasters, sports teams and "appreneurs" increasingly seek to monetize divided attention spans by promoting multidevice engagement. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? innovative alternatives.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Obviously, it makes little sense to hold leaders accountable for innovation if they haven’t been trained and coached to encourage innovation within their own teams. ” Personally mentoring innovation teams. The entire top team has to be on board. For a leader, this means: Being adept at using innovation tools.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. In affected sectors, VCs increased their investments in startups run by younger, less experienced founding teams. These firms were subsequently more likely to fail.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

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. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8