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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist.

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Why the Rules of the Entrepreneurial Game Are Changing

Leading Blog

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. Education innovators were often too focused on technology in the First Wave, and too much on content in the Second Wave. Of course perseverance is critical in nearly everything of any importance. T HERE WAS A TIME when AOL was how most Americans got online. Are You Adaptable?

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? What really makes them work?

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. A pitch (exaggerated, of course) may look like this. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. Its even 100% free!

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

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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You Are Not a Failure

Harvard Business Review

I talked recently with David Galenson , an economist at the University of Chicago who began studying prices at art auctions — an exploration that drove him to understand the nature of creativity over the course of one's career. Are you a conceptual innovator or an experimentalist? How has that shaped your career?

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Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan

Harvard Business Review

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. The strategic architecture of any business should incorporate facts from real world testing to allow one to adjust course as necessary.