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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments.

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Don’t Start a Company with Your Business School Pals

Harvard Business Review

All too often, MBA students’ previous work experiences center on investment banking, private equity, financial services, consulting, etc – in fact, about 56 percent of Wharton’s 2015 incoming MBA program participants fall in these categories.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

” In 2015, Dr. Vishal Rao invented AUM , the $1 ultra low-cost voice prosthesis devise. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. His friend and fundraising partner asked him, “How long are you going to depend on charities?”

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business Review

” Indeed, Mars International committed to investing $160 million in building a confectionary factory in Pune in 2015. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has launched a concerted effort to encourage companies from all over the world to “Make in India.”

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the use of commercial drones in United States airspace could become official starting in 2015. He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Fast forward to 2015, and you see an island transformed. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.