Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies. The Nairobi-based firms include banking-software developer Craft Silicon, digital-marketing agency Pamoja Media, call-center operator KenCall, POS vendor Paystream, and online content aggregator A24.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. They believe that the API improves user experience and makes product development both quicker and simpler. display advertisements online.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Buying the startups that get traction is cheaper and faster for them than trying to manage similar development efforts within a large company.

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Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 17

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.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. The Future of I-Corps.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. In fact, in developing countries no tech and low tech startups actually usually create more jobs than high tech startups (think Starbucks or IKEA vs Google or Apple). the total spending on entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries is still miniscule.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. When for-profit investors fund technology solutions, they naturally seek good returns on their investments. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. That's no way to build a market.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

So please trust me when I say that one of the biggest roadblocks to job creation is the huge logjam at the patent office that prevents entrepreneurs from getting the patents they need to obtain venture funding. Consider the case of Silicon Valley start-up Innate Immune, founded by world-renowned Stanford immunologist Sam Strober.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Offshoring Policies 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. Do your hiring/promotion processes recognize badges?

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too.

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Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches. Accelerators should help start-ups develop a talent strategy alongside their financial strategy. Accelerator programs are most successful when they provide the right help to the right people.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Where accelerators fall short is in leading investment rounds deep into the company's lifecycle, the purview of traditional venture funds. Accelerators might be able to accomplish this task by raising internal funds (which can be tricky) or establishing non-traditional funding partnerships.

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Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have fueled a global bonanza in app development. 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. This time round, they decided to take no venture capital.

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Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 11

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. They weren’t designed to offer the guidance and support for the varying stages of development — from concept to formed company — that our projects would be in. Insight Center.

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Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 All of these developments spell the dawn of an exciting new era for entrepreneurs, techies, investors, clinicians, and, last but not least, patients. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. Instead of creating a campaign, Laura created a movement.

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Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. Another possibility may be corporate venture funds , which often have the technical expertise to evaluate hard tech investments.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Beyond that, there is mobile, e-commerce affiliate programs, social media, big data, and the fact that it is easier to experiment with and develop new content on digital platforms than it ever was in the physical world.

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Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Taking this strategy a step further, the company established Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), a venture fund based in San Francisco that looks for other inventive, environmentally sustainable ways to improve crop yield.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

Health Care 9

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Like the toy importer, BlueArc made a major investment risk: developing and launching a new product while cash was dwindling. In contrast, one California manufacturer of data storage equipment grew by making a much less reckless bet.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. Omniture has been acquired by Adobe, and was venture-funded by Silicon Valley firms such as Hummer Winblad.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. have spread like wildfire.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there.

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Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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.”

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Everyone understood that being the flagship client for startups at this stage in their development would attract top startups and give BMW first access to cutting-edge technology, product customization advantages, time-to-market, and pricing, while reducing the risk profile of traditional corporate venturing.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 9

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. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. Yet, the bulk of the hospital deaths in India happens outside of the ICUs. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

Health Care 9

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Research we have conducted has revealed a variety of new, highly impactful investment approaches that can help accelerate the pace of the development, approval, and commercialization of new cancer therapies. In this approach, drug discovery is developed around a specific disease and is financed by the efforts of a disease-focused foundation.

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Pharmaceuticals Venture Funding Finance Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

All these industries were created by startups, many of whom used their precious patents to secure funding from venture investors — and then used that funding to hire the people needed to develop the new products, services and medical cures that constantly refresh U.S. prosperity.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use. And quite possibly, larger numbers of entrepreneurs would qualify for venture capital because they would not go too soon to seek capital. Entrepreneurship'

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