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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

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. Otherwise, schedule a conference call.

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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

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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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. Yes, there are challenges.

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. As noted above, I'm no longer alone in that: big businesses now get that consumer social-media innovations matter to them, too. SXJapan panel.

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. She had also started following me on social media and frequently retweeted my messages.)

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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.