Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. I recently wrote an ebook asking Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become ?

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Additionally, Amazon has been rapidly acquiring the servers necessary to support the cloud-enabled businesses (ebooks, video, music, apps, and web services) that the company sees as its future.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54