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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand. This, coupled with relative affordability, makes it a place people want to call home.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. Which is pretty much all of them.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. It had the world’s first and best compact disc players.