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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers

N2Growth Blog

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for better talent, a higher valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? Advantage : No advantage equals no opportunity.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful. Good investments are increasingly coming from burgeoning technology centers in Texas and North Carolina. Of course, some caveats are in order.