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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. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. Engineers became entrepreneurs and got rich.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Hollywood and content creators worldwide have taken notice and readjusted their business models accordingly. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important.

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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.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

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