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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Uber alone has raised more than $10 billion from VCs and similar financial backers to date.