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GE's Eco-Innovation Platform

Harvard Business Review

Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need GE: Crossing the "Valley of death". GE needs entrepreneurs: Challenging assumptions. Entrepreneurs are put on this Earth to challenge assumptions.

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Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014

Harvard Business Review

Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Entrepreneurs who don’t want to buy a 3D printer can always try out one of the new DIY fabrication studios popping up. HISTORIC GROWTH IN WEARABLES.

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