Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Because of the phenomenal technology, timing and team, the Akamai IPO became one of the most successful IPOs of that era.

IPO 15

IPO Lewin CTO Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 15

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. A close look at the core ideas of technology strategy suggests that beneath the sound and the fury lies a set of fundamental principles that can guide leaders in making smart choices.

IPO 13

IPO Products Productivity Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

Education 10

Education Technology IPO GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO.

Motivation 14

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 21

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 21

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. stock exchanges. It declined to 7.6

Class 14

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. Innocentive is a network that brings together "seekers" with technology challenges with "solvers" all over the world. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 14

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 14

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 Middle Management 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. My job is to sort out the companies with potential from those that need to go back to the drawing board. Hyundai is an -er brand.

Brand 13

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 13

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. It was a highly valued change.

Management 15

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. On the Friday before one of my key hires, with an impressive background from a top global technology company, was scheduled to start work, I got a nervous sounding call from him. China's population has developed a significant gender imbalance, with 119 boys for every 100 girls.

Engineering 11

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. In fact, SSOs played a major role in the technological revolution, reverberating throughout the world, from smart mobile phones.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

As a reminder, the dot-com crash was preceded by the dot-com bubble, a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO) to March 2000 when there was massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, including in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year. Even a rumor of a breach can trigger a communications crisis. A hacker going by the name of ‘Tumbleweed’ enters a forum and brags that the device can be hacked.

Planning 13

Planning Company Crisis Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Any significant, value-relevant development must be immediately disclosed rather than waiting for the annual report.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. Because they are innovative by nature, consumer tech companies need to invest heavily in research and development, which could be done if they had a portfolio of products at different stages of maturity, with some of them being established cash cows.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 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. No one was crying, but they wanted to.

CTO 14

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 14

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

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years.

Company 12

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 15

Banking Strategy Film Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. To determine which new firms are likely to grow, Guzman and Stern developed an algorithm that predicts the chances of a startup going public or being acquired for a significant sum.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell. Indeed, many would-be entrepreneurs who are drawn by the romantic vision of developing a snazzy new app or product pooh-pooh selling as beneath their dignity.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In addition, native Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Weibo, and Momo are having some of the most successful IPOs in U.S. From how we code to how we type, much of the world’s biggest advancements were developed with the English-speaking market in mind. What if language barriers stood in the way of these technologies?

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

He polled his VC colleagues: "The odds of actually receiving funding from a cold email: 50,000 to 1," he writes in his book Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get From Start-up to IPO on Your Terms. "So You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate." The guy doesn't know anybody?

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. I observed their interests.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. Android, for example, is a platform for users, developers, and handset makers. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

Participative 8

Participative Business Model IPO B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8