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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010.

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Use Your Customers as Ethnographers

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.”