Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

And of course, peer-to-peer lending has been around for a while, and some of it has been trickling over to startup financing. For the most part, the impact of crowdfunding on startup financing is still minimal. Finally, working capital financing is one of the key requirements of all small startups.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. Even pre-teens will participate, like the 9-year-old who started Katy's Krops to grow vegetables to feed the homeless. Aging populations will drain national resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. And after accumulating significant experience with this portfolio approach, GE is focusing today on fewer things that they’re incubating in a bigger way. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. In Kenya six would-be bikers jointly enter Toyota’s Crux Finance scheme, pay down Sh8,000 ($94) each, and start riding for as little as Sh355 ($4.20) a day, often as boda boda taxis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. Even pre-teens will participate, like the 9-year-old who started Katy's Krops to grow vegetables to feed the homeless. Aging populations will drain national resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

So try to find networking events, engage in conversations, or participate in the programs that shape that software. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. In 2009, I took 42 Harvard Business School students to Israel for a week of entrepreneurship exploration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This new approach was recently on display in Rich’s participation with the “ Pizza 4 Patriots ” program. From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. And visibility has improved.

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