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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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You Don’t Have to Be in Silicon Valley to Build the Next Great Internet Company

Harvard Business Review

While Silicon Valley continues to dwarf other regions around the world in terms of venture capital investments and successful exits , Case is placing his bets across the rest of America, on what he calls “the rise of the rest.” Say, toward venture capitalists pouring money into the next photo sharing app.

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What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Taxpayers Helped Apple, but Apple Won't Help Them

Harvard Business Review

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. government's risky investments have had for technology-based corporations.