Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. Career planning Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. We’ll learn something important. Creativity Entrepreneurship' It takes him two years to find and prototype the right camera. He bankrolls his efforts by selling shell necklaces and getting a small loan from his mother. He sells it door-to-door to surf shops. It’s a hit. It’s also a hit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

As the head of Year Up, a social enterprise that has grown rapidly since 2001 (we have a 49% average annual growth rate in students served), I'd like to share what I've learned about going head to head with for-profit enterprises to secure the best talent. The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship in B-Schools in Three Charts. Be Resilient.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The decision to launch Taobao out of the apartment that spawned Alibaba worked so well that Ma took the same approach with Alipay, the company’s digital payment business, which launched in 2004 also out of the apartment. Entrepreneurship Innovation' Of course, this only works for skunkworks projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The nitty-gritty of product design has become a badge of pride in many organizations, like Facebook, which has embraced a "learn by making" executive culture. Not all of these startups will succeed, but leaders who join their ranks will learn valuable lessons seeing products and ideas rejected by end-users firsthand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ). Entrepreneurship Global business Retail COD' Once a copycat succeeds, U.S. firms should jump on acquiring the business, the know-how, and the teams. Upon acquisition, eBay moved quickly to merge the local business and users on to its global trading platform.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. Sometimes the way to learn more about a subject is to focus in more tightly and become more precise in one’s use of language.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

In 2004, I attended my first trade show. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Learning to improvise like that is essential to startup success, and it’s hard to learn unless it’s forced upon you. I had borrowed a trade show booth and bartered with the event organizers to give me the booth space for free.

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IM Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So I run the , the university startup incubator there and I also teach in the entrepreneurship center. Kind of prioritize a little bit of what to learn. I’m learning when I read it. So Gmail was in beta , I think in 2004 , Dropbox started maybe 2008. It was a gig , a free gig , 2004 was a big deal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

But for women in the workplace—especially those in low-income developing countries—it can be harder to find other successful women to learn from and collaborate with, since social norms often restrict their mobility and opportunities to interact with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. What helped Trolltech ultimately save the relationship was learning how to set expectations appropriately in light of the divergent cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Entrepreneurship Finance Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

manufacturing has learned to produce more with fewer workers. The wage stagnation of the past 40 years is also linked to some developments that may have suppressed productivity growth, which has slowed since 1973, with an exception of a surge from 1995 to 2004. At the same time, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But testing hypotheses was very much in the company's DNA, as well as evaluating data to learn and adjust. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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