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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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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Hollywood and content creators worldwide have taken notice and readjusted their business models accordingly. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? Do your hiring/promotion processes recognize badges?

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? I live amid this trend, living and breathing it daily. Costs are low.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

Three factors could impede Facebook's growth: Increasing Shift to Mobile Utilization will Continue to Hurt Advertising Through its website, Facebook has built a massive advertising business. However, the advertising business is dependent on visits to Facebook's website. display advertisements online.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.