Leapfrogging
JANUARY 19, 2020
While the new approach recently arose from Silicon Valley, the model knows no geographic, cultural or technical boundaries. Winners receive grant money, Google Cloud credits, and – most importantly – mentorship from a who’s who of experts like: Patrick Collison, Cofounder & CEO of Stripe.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 3, 2018
He’s the founder and Managing Editor for IEDP – covering the global executive development sector– and cofounder of IEDP’s sister organization, Ideas for Leaders , which reviews, distills and shares the latest research on business leadership coming out of universities and business schools around the globe.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2017
In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. Cofounders are crucial. One said, “Most technical founders don’t have a clue about how venture finance works, and as a result they can get screwed by VCs.”
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 9, 2011
Jagged-resume hiring can succeed only if the cultural fit between candidate and company is unusually good, so warning flags in that area are taken seriously. But in his first decade at the school, Evans spotted and attracted an extraordinary group of graduate students, including the later cofounders of Pixar, Netscape and Adobe Systems.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Writing in response to the publication that year of IDEO cofounder David Kelley’s The Art of Innovation , Schrage argues that IDEO’s ability to innovate lies not so much in the methodologies of brainstorming, hot teams, and rapid prototyping that Kelley describes but in its culture. Organizational culture Innovation'
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. But to realize this potential, established companies will need to fundamentally revisit their business models and cultures.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If I figured the non-techies had some understanding of our technical team’s processes, and knew how we worked by virtue of shared office osmosis,” Czarina says. “I
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