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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Determine the Cost of the Operation. If your uptime is close to zero, you need to consider how to use social media effectively. For example, using social media to promote a cruise line targeting people over the age of 55 is virtually pointless. You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor.

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. and Hubert Burda of Burda are onstage talking about their experiences in a transformed media landscape. It's media disintermediation at work! Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. He also launched a new website and social presence on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube next to the social media presence of the core BMW brand.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Fueling this explosion is a fact of national culture: Indians love media. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Learn more about how she uses social media. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. How do you stay current with what is happening in the great wide world if your network is mostly internal and operational? Learn more about how he or she uses social media.