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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse. Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. By definition, they’ve caused no measurable harm. It isn’t.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Therefore, they don’t fit into the current definition of a security, and are technically outside of traditional legal frameworks. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and many other regulatory bodies are still investigating them.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. Bill George: The problem is definitely with the tax code. The corporate inversion — when a U.S.