First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2014

Geoffrey Moore is Managing Director, Geoffrey Moore Consulting; a venture partner with Mohr Davidow Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, TCG Advisors, The Chasm Institute and The Chasm Group; and a member of the Board of Directors, Akamai Technologies and several pre-IPO Companies.

IPO 75

IPO Marketing Strategy Consultative Technology 75

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Too attached The issue is that academics can become too attached to their own ideas and technologies. After spending years on a specific topic, they might have a hard time adapting when they discover that their technology isn’t quite right for the market. There was no significant difference in the likelihood of an IPO.

Biotechnology 52

Biotechnology IPO Entrepreneur Technology 52

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Trademarks differ from patents in that whereas patents capture technological innovation, trademarks allow companies to differentiate themselves in their advertising. They can often be costly to acquire and maintain, so can also provide a real signal of intent about a firm and its products to investors. .

IPO 40

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. Another look at part of Google’s innovation strategy comes from a 2013 piece on DARPA , the government research agency.

IPO 16

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

Long-term 14

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 14

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

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. Economy Education Technology'

Education 10

Education Technology IPO GDP 10

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

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. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. No 20,000 tech jobs.

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. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 21

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

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. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. ” “We’re working on the most advanced technology.”

Motivation 14

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 16

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. Their success is a reminder that the conventional wisdom that basketball is a game for young people doesn't always apply.

Media 16

Media Company IPO Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. Their success is a reminder that the conventional wisdom that basketball is a game for young people doesn't always apply.

Media 16

Media Company IPO Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The heady winds of Facebook's IPO have left in their wake gnawing questions about the durability of the social network behemoth's brand, as critics point to declining revenue growth and a less-than-spectacular earnings outlook. But the troubled IPO should direct attention to more fundamental elements of the company's strategy.

IPO 16

IPO PR Brand Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. But if that's the focus, it's surely misplaced. The German car site motor-talk.de

White Paper 14

White Paper IPO Media Film 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

Class 14

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. It's something that U.S. tech entrepreneurs may not need to be overly concerned about, since the tech ecosystem in the U.S.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. But prosperity is always going to accrue to those who innovate yesterday's rusting, creaking institutions.

GDP 19

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 19

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. In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5 Some, at least, believe that new entrants and their innovative predictive approaches can change the game in small business lending.

Credit Scoring 14

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

What we are witnessing, and participating in, is more than an IPO. The event will sanction Mark Zuckerberg's place in the pantheon of innovative entrepreneurs who built fortunes upon technologies that changed the world, or more precisely, that changed the way people experienced and lived in the world. It's a collective rite.

IPO 16

IPO Charisma Fashion Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. There is the same faith that, if we can just get a new technology adopted, the business model will follow. People also seem to be obsessed with the number of users , which reminds me eerily of the lust for "eyeballs" that characterized the first wave of Internet-based companies.

Media 19

Media Advertising Niche Marketing Business Model 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2021

Six qualities that define a modern tech business.

IPO 10

IPO Company Quality Technology 10

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. But even despite China’s impressive growth, it seems clear that English – not Mandarin – is and will remain the language of innovation. And the best tool of innovation? Collaboration.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The VC industry has failed to innovate. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

Venture Capitalist 22

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world. The "smart" do, in fact, take from the "strong."

IPO 17

IPO Engineering Taylor Taylorism 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Clearly articulate this need as soon as you begin, because no matter how well researched or innovative your solution, you won’t get support if the need isn’t apparent or convincing. Other companies with slicker marketing were gaining market share even though they had inferior technology,” Mason says. Does the firm need a new IT system?

IPO 13

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation. Social investment.

EPS 14

EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 10

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

AUGUST 15, 2013

Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal. The Case of IBM.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

Company 12

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

IPO 8

IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' They are too important to leave to chance.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since filing their S-1 ahead of their potential IPO , Groupon scrutiny has been intense. Realizing that perhaps their customers are giving away the worm without the hook, Groupon themselves also released a competing card-linked rewards platform technology. More and more, sales costs are rising and subscribers are buying fewer Groupons.

Incentives 15

Incentives Loyalty Discount IPO 15