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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Insight Center.

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Midsized Firms Can’t Afford Bad Bets

Harvard Business Review

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Blue Arc’s R&D had a track record of success; it was a proven team. Its growth had been derailed.

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

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Will badges require successful course completion? According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. 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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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business Review

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.