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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

Algorithms will harness personal data in order to assess an employee’s predicted success at work: for example, how likely she is to bounce around jobs. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. Glitches at Netflix have caused outages as well as strange mashup summaries for different films.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. We’ve all had to adapt.