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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.". Noisebridge photo by Dylan Hendricks, 2013.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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What the Scarcity of Women in Business Case Studies Really Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

Selecting the top three award-winning case studies and the best-selling cases each year for the five-year window between 2009-2013 yielded a total of 53 different case studies — some of the same cases came up as best-sellers several years in a row, and a few were both best-sellers and award-winners. Pink topics.