LDRLB

JANUARY 3, 2017

Brad is a former C-level executive of a publicly traded company that he co-founded which went from entrepreneurial start-up to IPO in less than three years. In This episode, You’ll Learn: The Influential Wave of Technology on Millennials. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ]. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

IPO 122

IPO Handbook How To Software 122

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 52

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 52

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 15, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

IPO 70

IPO Software Consultative Career 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

IPO 70

IPO Software Consultative Career 70

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

Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. We are entering a new phase of technological evolution, a phase where the Internet will be fully integrated into every part of our lives… As the third wave gains momentum, every industry leader in every economic sector is at risk of being disrupted.”

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur IPO Policies Education 150

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

Yet, were it not for the bad leadership of Shockley, Bell Labs and Fairchild Semiconductor, one wonders if we’d ever have had Intel, the semiconductor as we know it today or even the information technology revolution? or returns massive investments (look at Intel Stock since IPO), what do you do? You serve your employees.

IPO 260

IPO Leadership Letter Information Technology 260

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 1, 2022

Technology and Coaching. One response I received included the following and, upon further review and reflection, I was struck by how accurate I found these comments to be: “Technology is struggling to define itself.”. They were on a variety of different missions and deliberately pursued their purpose in that regard.

IPO 52

IPO Travel Content Reference 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. I don't mean to suggest it will fall 70% in value after its IPO pop.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 15

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. Finance Small/medium business Technology' But as of earlier this year, the company has expanded into the world of commercial loans , specifically for small businesses.

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 8

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 14

IPO Lewin CTO Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Schmidt himself recounted part of his experience at Google in a 2010 article , which describes at length the company’s “quirky” Dutch auction IPO. And I wrote about the tension between Google’s core strategy as a consumer technology company, and Glass’s potential as an enterprise product.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

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 9

IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

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 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

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). Furthermore, doing IPO is not only an expensive proposition, it also consumes managerial time and energy.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. .” technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online.

Company 53

Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2021

Six qualities that define a modern tech business.

IPO 10

IPO Company Quality Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, venture firms are constantly scouring for opportunities to get their invested company acquired, which is an increasingly attractive exit route for digital entrepreneurs, given the IPO’s long-drawn process and mandated holding-period requirements for initial investors.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

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 13

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. There is a better way.

Crisis 11

Crisis IPO Film How To 11

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 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

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 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 11

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

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 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 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

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. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

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

JANUARY 29, 2014

As The Wall Street Journal reported in October of last year: This year, shares of newly public technology companies are being valued at 5.6 times sales, estimates University of Florida professor Jay Ritter, who tracks IPOs. Shares of this year’s tech IPOs have risen an average of 26% on their first day of trading.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Comparison Banking 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

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.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. If you define success as an exit from venture capital financing via acquisition or an IPO, female-led startups perform much worse than male-led startups. ‘The Floating Piers’ Installation By Christo. That’s really low.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

But looking at the company's evolution through that lens helps explain why its IPO numbers have topped those of perhaps the most successful internet start-up of all time. This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing (Technology Review). A Tastier Investment Than Facebook (Wired). — by Gretchen Gavett. BONUS BITS: Tech Talk.

Ramaswamy 15

Ramaswamy IPO Webinar Participative 15

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 14

IPO PR Brand Globalization 14

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. The number of startups that the algorithm scores as quality is high, but the likelihood of a successful IPO or acquisition hasn’t kept up.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue. We’re in an up market and people are more excited about technology than ever before. Staying power is vital for innovation.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed. Computers Everywhere!

Power 10

Power IPO Retail Wilde 10

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.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11