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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

People all over the country came together to answer that question with a resounding "yes," and social media certainly helped us get there. The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No.

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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

People all over the country came together to answer that question with a resounding "yes," and social media certainly helped us get there. The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No.

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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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. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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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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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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