Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The turning point came when they saw an announcement for the MotionTracking Developers Conference that was being held in San Francisco. According to VentureWell, as of May 2016 the program has trained over 700 teams, which have raised more than $80 million from venture funding, government grants, and other sources.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 11

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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Cialdini Venture Funding Conference Short-term 8

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 proliferation of startup conferences facilitates networking.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Apart from the website, the BMW Startup Garage team also stays in regular touch with leading venture capitalists and regularly appears at international conferences, as well as hosting their own startup events. Even so, less than 5% of all potential startups will make it past a screening process.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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. You have to put value in to get value out.”

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. Individually, each piece makes sense—the crowdsourced idea contest, the internal venture fund, the customer sentiment analysis, the stage-gate product development process—but the whole is less than the parts.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. It’s just not in the mainstream media.

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