Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. After producing an initial prototype — a stripped-down version of traditional incubators powered by electricity — they traveled to Nepal to test it in an urban hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. Georgia Tech’s incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center , helps create successful startups by connecting entrepreneurs to mentors, capital, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. Certainly not VCs. Not even, these days, angel investors. Let me tell you another story, that of Cableorganizer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2012

The idea that an itinerant New York City candy vendor pulls in $150 a day ought to have spawned one of the great feel-good financial news stories of 2011. the underground has always been the incubator economy. We can start by looking at history. Here in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

So in 2011, the publication launched a new model, called FUSION, for working with start-ups, welcoming a select group of new ventures into the Irish Times offices to help the company develop new digital offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

One promising example was pointed out to us by Sandhya Shekar, CEO, IIT Madras Research Park , who discussed how they have successfully incubated profitable social enterprises such as DesiCrew, which employs many rural women as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Omer bootstrapped his company from no revenue or employees to about 45 employees and over $15 million in revenue by the time AgilOne partnered with Sequoia Capital in 2011. In our incubation methodology at 1M/1M , we actively encourage entrepreneurs to engage in services businesses. They invested $22.3 million in us in 2007.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When the DPI program was first rolled out 2010 and 2011, the main focus was on pay-for-performance metrics. To this end, the medical management team developed the Brigham Care Redesign Incubator Start-up Program (BCRISP), which launched in 2013. At the time, most existing metrics applied to primary care doctors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Founded in 2011, and based on Steve Blank’s lean startup principles , I-Corps was designed to help bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization often known as the valley of death. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.” So Opus 12 applied to the I-Corps program and was accepted.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2010

SOBCon will actively nurture, educate, encourage, incubate, promote, network- and most of all, believes, owns, and lives the dream, so you can believe, own, and live it too. SOBCon can ignite that process as soon as the entrepreneurial urge strikes (like in college, for example), or any other place along the business cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Unclean drinking water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. Here’s some startling statistics: Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. coli, salmonella, cholera and hepatitis A.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. If one assumes each angel deal was $300,000 per deal, then about 100,000 deals were done in 2011. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn't getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company's revenues. billion market capitalization as of this writing. "Any

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

As a fighter pilot during the Cold War, I trained for years to fight the Russians, but on April 4, 2011, I stood at the base of a Soyuz rocket named Gagarin , in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first human spaceflight. To learn more about Ron’s work, visit his website at orbitalperspective.com.

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