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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

During 2012, creating a process for internal innovation moved to our priority list. Early in 2012, the team created ideas to impact each of these areas and voted on innovation as the common denominator. From social media tools to business process gamification to digital wallets, we received over a dozen great ideas. The Company.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S.

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers. This is not what the media makes it out to be.”. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators.

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

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

billion market capitalization as of this writing. After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M.

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