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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments. Alternative investments. Institutional factors.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.”

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Even better.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance.