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Leading in a New Direction - 3 Techniques for Thinking up New Business Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? A = Adapt – How about adapting the successful drive-through services that the fast food companies offer to the fast-casual market?

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.