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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Don’t Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. And the numbers tell a similar story: startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. servers.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.