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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. The remaining 5% are believed to contribute to over 40% of the region’s GDP, so there is a clear incentive to do much better at commercializing the exceptional research being done across Europe.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

Strategy Driven

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. Trusts, however, were financed by consumer deposits, while the toxic asset of 2008 were securities contracts held by investment banks.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

For example, in a climate of fear and micromanagement, a sales person might focus on the projected revenue of a prospective client, the anticipated results and closing date that were promised to the boss. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. Consider leaving a comment!

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Exchanges could also create incentives for insurers to encourage or require providers to apply research findings from analyses of comparative effectiveness.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.