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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S.

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Startups are an engine of prosperity, albeit a highly imperfect one. Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2% GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

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