Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. First Round looked at the impact of alma mater on company performance.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Raising outside financing requires compliance with complex securities laws.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

“Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.” In 2011, cleantech represented nearly 17% of total U.S. VC investment; in 2016 it was under 8%.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea. payroll), towards the R&D tax credit.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

As a tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, I (Dean) listened to many speeches from members on both sides of the aisle in praise of the R&D tax credit, because it would help grow and support those two entrepreneurs in a garage with the new idea. In brief, SICA allows start-ups to take advantage of the R&D tax credit for the first time.

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