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Should Your Business Be Nonprofit or For-Profit?

Harvard Business Review

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth. Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent. helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (