Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

Career 10

Career Company IPO Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. They are the legacy of China's one child policy, sometimes referred to as the "six pocket" generation, since they grew up with two parents and four grandparents (six pockets of money) focused on their educational and career success.

Engineering 12

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.

Management 14

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. How about the fact that policymakers from innovation-starved countries (where failure in a new venture still brings career ruin and even shame on your family) have spotted it, and are trying to duplicate the same conditions in their economies? We could go on, but we don't need to.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. Second, for a book we're writing on the DNA of entrepreneurship, my co-authors Richard Harrington, Tsun-yan Hsieh, and I have developed a checklist on how to reflect on failure. In one context or another, you've likely failed, too.

Short-term 16

Short-term Long-term IPO Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate." Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am. The guy doesn't know anybody?

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Career IPO Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. We haven’t developed skills in resourcefulness. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Creativity IPO Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. For example, someone that liked electronics development likely wouldn’t jump for an administrative job in a bank with marginal pay difference. I observed their interests.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

CTO 11

CTO Lewin IPO Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. ” 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. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

Price 101

Price Content IPO Marketing 101