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Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet?

Kevin Eikenberry

by Kevin Eikenberry on October 8, 2010 in Achievement , Learning The idea for this post comes with a tip of the hat to a high school friend, Jerry Gray, reconnected with first online. Tagged as: reading { 6 comments… read them below or add one } Carletta October 8, 2010 at 9:35 am Excellent! It was implied but not stated.

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Views on a New Opportunity (Note: VCs please avoid reading this.

Rajesh Setty

On a lighter note, Venture Capitalists, please avoid reading this excerpt Excerpts from the first chapter… When I first discovered that my nickname among some members of staff at Virgin was “Dr. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe. The first shift is the Great Expansion, as the past decade has witnessed a massive increase in venture capital deployed globally.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S. Last year, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in China, we spoke with one of the country's most celebrated scientists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way. Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. Different methods, same purpose.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy.