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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

The BWPO has a central team, led by its chief medical officer, responsible for “medical management” — a term used to describe efforts to improve clinical care and succeed in contractual obligations related to performance measurement. Over years, the medical management team built strong ties to PCPs. Insight Center.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Based on better customer retention alone, management estimates this innovation has boosted annual revenues by $10 to $20 million. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management' The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. In part, he wrote: In other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting? If not, I know every taxicab driver in the country is.

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For a Booming Economy, Bet on High Growth Firms, Not Small Businesses

Harvard Business Review

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. So it is with high growth firms: studies of these firms show that their growth occurs in sudden, largely unforeseeable spurts for reasons ranging from market shifts, buyouts, recapitalizations, new management and sometimes luck. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.”