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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

This nonprofit rulebook discriminates against charities in at least five different areas: compensation, marketing, risk taking, time horizons, and capital itself. We blame capitalism for creating huge inequities in our society, and then we refuse to allow the "nonprofit" sector to use the tools of capitalism to rectify them.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

Take Claus Moseholm, co-founder of GoViral , a Danish company created in 2005 to harness the then-emerging power of the Internet to deliver advertisers’ video content in viral fashion. Investors don’t like risk any better than you do. But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital.

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If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out

Harvard Business Review

He’s talking about the public buying stock in private companies, something that may soon be legal thanks to the JOBS Act, and which took a step forward this week with new rules from the SEC allowing private companies to advertise investment opportunities for accredited (read: rich) investors. percent annually). percent annually).