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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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2017
In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. He and his two Millennial cofounders wanted me to help turn their growing tech startup into an international giant, as their Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. Sounded good.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2011
Yet rather than license its breakthrough technology to a company such as Nikon and sell the product through traditional camera retailers, Lytro is building its own camera that it will sell through Internet channels such as Amazon and via the company's own website. Lytro is far from alone in its quest for self-reliance.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 17, 2018
Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door. In fact, this is unlikely.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2013
Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. That may sound like a bit of a wild question but an essential element of strategy is, to state the obvious, thinking about what we want to create in the future.
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