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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock.