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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Entrepreneurship Company Resources LEAN 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The first camera comes out in 2004. How come every time I write marketing copy, it sounds boring when I look at it the next day? 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. It’s a hit.

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Video Exercises Entrepreneurship Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. But this decline, while troubling, is largely irrelevant to entrepreneurship. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler. Entrepreneurship Gender' There has also been a 5.2% It can be hired or bought.

Entrepreneurship 11

Entrepreneurship Technology Trends Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

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Underperforming Technical Team Tools Social Innovation Open Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 But one of the keys to success was its strength in the B2B office coffee market, which allowed the company to refine its offer and build awareness before winning in the B2C market. of revenue growth. in revenue growth.

Strategy 14

Strategy Strategy Marketing Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

Entrepreneurship 9

Entrepreneurship Comparison Marketing Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Unicorns are: Small in size. Narrowly focused.

Technical Cofounder 14

Technical Cofounder Learning Company Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agile 8

Agile Change Software Developers Software Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

Underperforming Technical Team 8

Underperforming Technical Team Learning Entrepreneurship Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Public and private markets alike are starting to remember this, correcting for years of overly exuberant startup funding. In 2004, I attended my first trade show. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. As the past few years have shown, raising money for a startup is easy. Insight Center.

Entrepreneurship 8

Entrepreneurship Creativity Competition Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Though some of this decline reflects measurement limitations, much of the decline is plausibly due to shifts in technology and market structure that have disadvantaged workers. In a notable shift from earlier decades, labor’s share of income is no longer constant, but has fallen from nearly 65% in the mid-1970s to below 57% in 2017.

Policies 8

Policies Technical Review Entrepreneurship Trends 8

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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Company How To Entrepreneurship Course 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

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. billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value.

Software Review 11

Software Review Technical Review Culture LEAN 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Once a government monopoly, the company was privatized, in 2004, and bought by a set of construction entrepreneurs, for $292 million. And I want my marketing guys fighting for new variants, new products. The result is a slide into mediocrity. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Meeting Agile 8

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Drucker “presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a practice and a discipline.” He focuses on the Practice of innovation, Practice of entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial strategies.

Innovation 12

Innovation LEAN Entrepreneurship Creativity 12

Innovation 360 Group

MAY 29, 2016

In times when the market dynamics, technology development, and diffusion are faster than ever, it is a natural question. Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time. processes) and externally (e.g.

Radical Innovation 40

Radical Innovation Company Ideation Innovation 40

Innovation 360

MAY 29, 2016

In times when the market dynamics, technology development, and diffusion are faster than ever, it is a natural question. Another source on the theme, O’Reilly III and Tushman (2004) , talks about being able working ambidextrously with incremental and radical innovation at the same time. processes) and externally (e.g.

Radical Innovation 40

Radical Innovation Company Ideation Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. The desperate-to-prove-himself banker found a chart that showed how the housing market was overpriced. Yahoo declined (as did others).

Strategy 21

Strategy Strategy Entrepreneurship Culture 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. “By serving as GE’s and other equipment makers’ supply partner, the whole world is now my scope.

Disruption 14

Disruption Culture Software Industry 14