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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. New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. Crossing the valley.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. It’s not all about venture funding.