Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Similarly, some people move from technical to managerial positions in order to advance in their careers. Those jobs often demand less technical knowledge but can offer more pay, more responsibilities, and chances to develop new skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Shouldn’t the next autonomous truck company be cofounded by technologists and truck drivers? Shouldn’t next-generation autonomous farms be cofounded by technologists and farmers?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2011

I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. We use this method whether we're talking about technical matters such as performance speed on a state-of-the-art Drupal site in development, workplace issues such as reconfiguring office space, or grant or program opportunities.

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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. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Given this, CECP partnered with KKS Advisors, an advisory and research firm where one of us works and the other is cofounder, to explore the information content of these plans, create a framework analyzing the content of the reports, and examine how capital market participants respond to them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Square , a financial services start-up created by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, markets its transaction processing services directly to consumers and small businesses via the Internet. Big companies hesitate to make those decisions, which require bringing many people to the table and taking real technical risks.

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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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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.

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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. Ben told me, "I knew Mark was going to build the company with or without me, and once I met the design team, I was just blown away. And so, he decided to join in the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Although female-founded companies represent a greater percentage of First Round’s investments than the national average — startups with at least one female cofounder account for approximately 18% of new VC-backed new ventures in the U.S. — they were still the minority of investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, asserted nearly 50 years ago that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double roughly every two years, he was charting a path for the company that would dominate the industry — and dictate the direction of technology — for decades. It's anybody's race to win.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. But if something goes wrong, the damage can be devastating. “When ordinary people get fired, they get another job,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. If you need an appendectomy, call a surgeon. But if you’re seeking a CEO for a surgical device company, an MD may not be your best choice.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. Alan Feld, cofounder and managing partner of Vintage Partners, cautions Israeli entrepreneurs not to define their product category too narrowly. as early as a year or two after founding.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Moreover, because tech roles have seemed inaccessible to those without a technical degree, the sector’s high-paying jobs have been assumed to exacerbate social divides, not narrow them. Now, OHUB has 70-plus campus chapters in the process of being formed by student cofounders at colleges and universities around the country.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

“I needed to show him that we had the best technical minds in the company working on this and that we weren’t being lazy; we were just limited by technology.” Today Alexi is cofounder and CEO of BetterUp, the San Francisco-based company that connects employees with certified, executive-level coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

New York Magazine When health care start-up cofounder Joshua Kushner had a sore throat, he didn''t call a doctor. But it''s worth remembering that what seems at the time like a good management decision can say a lot about how your company views the world and who is at the center of it.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 29, 2017

Moore, cofounder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore’s Law deals with processing power, the speed at which a machine can perform a particular task. For some, the “cause of death” is purely technical—a transistor can only be made so much more powerful and smaller, they say. Moore’s Law Defined—and Reborn. Named after Gordon E.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Delian Asparouhov, an investor with Founders Fund, an early backer of Facebook and SpaceX cofounded by Peter Thiel, blogged that GPT-3 ‘provides 10,000 PhDs that are willing to converse with you.’ ’ Asparouhov fed GPT-3 the start of a memo on a prospective health care investment.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him. He’s not goofing around with thin stuff that’s going to come and go. Not Elon Musk.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

No one who knows him doubts Page's unwavering commitment to the innovation culture of the company he cofounded. Google Labs generated insights into technical elements and features, as well as customer engagement. "Putting more wood behind fewer arrows" is the CEO's prioritization prerogative. Just how valuable were these data?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem that Etosha and her cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product. Soon after, she and her technical cofounder also received a grant from Cyclotron Road.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In 2008, he gathered four other Israelis living in San Francisco to be his cofounders and they hired a coder in Ukraine through Craigslist and paid him to develop an ordering app. It’s true that the founders weren’t technical experts, they had no previous startup experience, and GrubHub already had impressive marketshare.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

” And Google cofounder Sergey Brin joined the protests against the executive order at San Francisco International Airport, saying, “I’m here because I’m a refugee.” ” (He later said that he and his family fled oppression in the former Soviet Union.).

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