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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. A quarter of first-time venture-backed firms are acquired for at least $50 million or file for an IPO.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. First, why is it a sector? You get this.

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What to Do When Your Boss Says No

Harvard Business Review

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. ” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution.

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