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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. 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.

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Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. 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. The key thing is to be willing to wait 5, 7, 10 years.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.