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What we need in incubators

Women on Business

Around the country politicians, industry leaders and small businesses have screamed their support for small business development centers and universities to get involved in creating business incubators that help build and sustain small business. More non-tech incubators. More specific advice.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Focus As Much On Organization Structure As Business Model

The Horizons Tracker

Working on the business model is a fundamental part of pretty much every “lean startup” program, which makes it a fundamental part of pretty much every accelerator and incubator. This is when managers are often forced upon the founders to try and whip their organizations into shape. Organizational structure. Forced hand.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Nadella championed numerous innovation programs, including allocating physical spaces for Microsoft employees to work with local entrepreneurs, creating accelerators to incubate new businesses, and hosting a global hackathon that became one of the largest innovation events in the world. Innovation requires clear goals to reach toward.

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Can Entrepreneurship Support Sustainable Local Development?

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management examined why this might be so via the lens of Detroit’s attempts to revitalize itself through entrepreneurship. The second organization was a more alternative incubator whose philosophy was that startups should evolve like a living organism.

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The Down-and-Dirty Truth about Humility (Eileen McDargh)

Let's Grow Leaders

Put your hands into rich humus, that dark soil that is the incubator for plant life. Winning well with others, creating an organization that thrives just like that garden, requires humility—a trait that is impossible if a manager looks down rather than gets down with team members, colleagues, and associates. Winning Well Reflection.

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The Top 15 Shows That Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Watch

Strategy Driven

If you’re interested in maximizing your downtime however, we’ve found the best TV shows that every entrepreneur should watch, to make sure that down time is not only guilt free, but invaluable. That’s what the brave entrepreneurs on Dragons Den have to do. Dragons Den. A dilemma indeed! Undercover Boss. The Profit. Shark Tank.

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Creating Demand-Led Innovation In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

It’s in no one’s interest to waste effort, whether from an entrepreneur, a clinician, or a large company.” The researchers examined 10 projects that had managed to scale successfully to try and uncover aspects of each project that point to some common trends. Supporting change.