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Do Entrepreneurs Learn From Their Experiences?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers tracked over 300 entrepreneurs as they launched over 700 technology hardware projects on Kickstarter between 2010 and 2019. This can be especially problematic as one could reasonably expect the second product launch to build on the lessons learned from the first one, often incorporating crucial feedback from the market.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I Think Not.

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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

Not only are high profile entrepreneurs banging the drum for the lifestyle, but a vast swathe of accelerators and incubators have emerged to help startups to grow. Entrepreneurship has seldom been as sexy or as accessible as it is now.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. Innovation can be their lever. Innovation'

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit. These findings fit another area of research as well, which shows that creativity and innovation spike for many in later life.