The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. By contrast, if innovations are able to overcome these bars, the researchers believe they are likely to have significant advantages in the market. Uncertain spread.

Innovation 126

Innovation IPO Mass Marketing Early Adopters 126

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

I spent almost 30 years as a lawyer in private practice, advising business leaders on Delaware corporate law issues – addressing matters like preferred stock financings, IPOs, mergers, hostile takeovers, proxy contests, corporate governance and fiduciary issues. My own story is an interesting backdrop.

Hostile Takeover 191

Hostile Takeover IPO Short-term Committee 191

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks. IPOs have huge costs and risks.

IPO 62

IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance; and an informational role, signaling higher firm quality to investors,” the researchers say.

IPO 52

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. Corporate partnerships and sponsorships that provide funding in exchange for marketing or other benefits To prepare for raising money, it is essential to be clear on your business plan. How can I make my business more attractive to potential investors?

Venture Capitalist 107

Venture Capitalist Finance Microfinance How To 107

Women on Business

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Facebook jobs saw 11% growth, which is a big change from the 14% drop in Facebook jobs experienced during the second quarter or 2012 following the company’s poor IPO. Internet marketing jobs were up 12%. Social networking jobs grew 15% overall after stagnating at just 1% growth during the second quarter of 2012.

IAS 180

IAS IPO Document Follow-up 180

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

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. She sits on a Board of Directors of Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA). Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012.

CEO 335

CEO Word of Mouth Marketing Leadership IPO 335

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It means being an excellent communicator in every facet of business life, from short rides on the elevator to IPO roadshows, from team meetings to industry events, and everything in between. Every communication experience is an opportunity to influence. .

Decentralization 81

Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. Venture investors look for home runs.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 15

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 1, 2022

Technology: This is a quote I came across recently in a business publication: “… of 53 tech-related companies that went public last year through an IPO or direct listing, all but three are now trading well below their offer or opening price … more than half have tumbled by at least 50%.”. Everyone is a coach.”. Is coaching a “good thing?

IPO 52

IPO Travel Content Reference 52

Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Neumann came under fire after the company’s prospectus filing for the IPO revealed heavy losses and a wide discrepancy in the distribution of power between him and the company’s other shareholders. Consider the roller-coaster summer that WeWork had and the news that CEO Adam Neumann has stepped down.

Leadership 82

Leadership IPO Licensing Books 82

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A Quartz article on the IPO of hipster journal company Moleskine included this chart that comes from the company's prospectus. Now, if I had read a paragraph of text Moleskine marketers had written that said, "Moleskine is not a stationery company — in fact it's the opposite of a stationery company!"

Positioning 22

Positioning Marketing IPO Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Lending Club, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending start-up, filed for an IPO yesterday, hoping to raise half a billion dollars at a $5 billion valuation. The company’s original focus was personal lending – individuals borrowing a few thousand dollars here and there to pay off credit card bills or fund a home improvement project.

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts. The lesson here?

IPO 14

IPO Audience Storytelling Video 14

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion.

Competitive Advantage 70

Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir talk about the Beyond Meat IPO and whether plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger will become mass-market products. They then discuss Facebook’s announcement that it is pivoting to put greater emphasis on user privacy.

IPO 12

IPO Mass Marketing Marketing Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Yelp's IPO filing comes hot on the heels of successful IPOs and high valuations for Angie's List and Groupon. Yelp's timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company's current position as the dominant consumer-review web site.

IPO 15

IPO Business Model Review Advertising 15

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company.

Delegation 249

Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 249

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You bring more value in the marketplace (and market it right) the marketplace will bring more value back into your life. You are a serial entrepreneur that has taken a couple of companies to IPO and you have your tongue pierced. The marketplace operates on a simple principle – exchange of value. It becomes interesting again.

IPO 67

IPO Operations Entrepreneur Examples 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” ” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.”

Company 53

Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

Marketing 9

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2024

This article argues that markets in crypto-assets such as Bitcoin are maturing. But there is also evidence that innovative moves by crypto-asset issuers to create new vehicles for investment in crypto-assets have improved price efficiency and market liquidity, making investment in crypto-assets safer for investors.

Maturity 23

Maturity Price Efficiency Marketing 23

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A Quartz article on the IPO of hipster journal company Moleskine included this chart that comes from the company's prospectus. Now, if I had read a paragraph of text Moleskine marketers had written that said, "Moleskine is not a stationery company — in fact it's the opposite of a stationery company!"

Positioning 8

Positioning Marketing IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass? The company has piles of money — $3.6 But the priority is instead growing fast enough to generate adequate returns on the $4 billion-plus (the company raised another $1.8

Marketing 10

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

billion market valuation. In addition, with little differentiation and a bevy of rivals, marketing costs are skyrocketing. After a barrage of Hollywood-worthy hype, shares of Groupon started trading last Friday. Priced at $20 per share, the stock ended the day at $26.10, resulting in a $15.7 Consumers, of course, love big discounts.

IPO 12

IPO Discount Price Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. IPOs dried up. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup. And it may work.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. The CEO isn’t the only one likely to be scrutinized by the market.

IPO 8

IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In particular, we have gathered data on every board appointment and resignation filed with the SEC for all public companies with more than $75 million in market capitalization since April 1, 2018. When we focus on companies with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more, interestingly, the male tilt goes the other way.

Company 10

Company IPO Public Relations Media 10

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

JULY 11, 2018

The age finding is similar using firms with the fastest sales growth instead, and founder age is similarly high for those startups that successfully exit through an IPO or acquisition. Jeff Bezos and Amazon have moved far beyond selling books online, and Amazon’s future market cap growth rate was highest when Bezos was 45.

Succession 15

Succession IPO Entrepreneur Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

Energy 13

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This is especially true in hotly contested markets where fast growth can be the difference between success or failure. As a next step, we correlated replacement with whether the startup achieves an IPO or an “attractive” exit, defined as the company being sold for more than 150% of capital raised.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Policies Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. What compels these companies to IPO prematurely is that they need to provide a liquidity event for their institutional investors, and sometimes for their founders or early employees. Some of them go public before even turning a profit.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. and The New York Times Co. stock exchanges.

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Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10