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The Importance Of Trademarks To Startups

The Horizons Tracker

In total, they assessed over 55,000 trademarks registered by firms that had received backing from VCs between 1985-2015. The data showed that trademarks often helped obtain better terms when raising finance, and were generally a good predictor of future success, both as a private firm and later on when they go public.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. tax jurisdiction.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape. Innovation and change.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? Investing in innovation capacity. billion in 2014.

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