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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

As a result, they and their ideas may be discounted by the platform because they’re not the intended target market. These products also had lower rates of venture funding and fewer users. If you want a platform that is more diverse, then you need the larger ecosystem to be more diverse.” Gender gap.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Build a diverse team. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

An increasing number of critiques have been mounted in publications as diverse as The New Republic , The Weekly Standard , and Wired (to name only a few) based on charges of sexism, conspicuous consumption, inequality, and an attitude toward government and social problems ranging from naivete to disdain. economy and on employment.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business Review

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Multitasking has evolved from a distraction and diversion to a financial focus wherever digital content lives. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income.

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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. Innovation is decreasing the cost of experiments in areas as diverse as biotech, hardware, and agriculture, resulting in the need for new sources of small amounts of capital such as angel investors.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.