Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

From Product Development to Customer Development. That’s why he advises founders to go out and talk to customers before they start building a product that, they might find out later, no one wants to buy. By the time the flight landed in Chicago, they had already built a simulation of their product on Tilton’s laptop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. I’d connected with a woman who had recently spoken at a major conference I was eager to break into. How do you build an immediate connection?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors. The fear that your products are inferior. The fear that you’re falling behind.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Everyone understood that being the flagship client for startups at this stage in their development would attract top startups and give BMW first access to cutting-edge technology, product customization advantages, time-to-market, and pricing, while reducing the risk profile of traditional corporate venturing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. These efforts have paid huge dividends.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

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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