Jason Womack

MAY 17, 2012

So, as I was cruising through town, I happened to notice a Tech Incubator. I'm thinking that's just some good, solid, all around advice. So, I decided to keep on going into town (Natchez) and take a quick bike tour - and, add a few more miles to the odometer for the day. What are the chances of that? What do you think?

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

3 - Let the idea incubate. That way if the person I needed to sell went elsewhere for advice, the idea would be supported. Secrets (or perhaps I should call them techniques) are situational and person dependent. 2 - Speak highly of everyone. I find speaking highly of people tends to make things come true. 5 - Think downside.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Be careful before you take "quickstart" funds or join formal "incubators" within established venture firms. To fight back, some of the bigger funds have openly or secretly created "quickstart" or incubator seed funds that allow a subset of their partnership to authorize a convertible note -style investment of a few hundred thousand dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

But for those who have to be creative on demand, these stories don’t offer much practical advice on how to have a eureka moment of their own. Eureka moments feel like flashes of insight because the often come out a period when the mind isn’t focused on the problem, what psychologists call a period of incubation. ideas generated.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

These networks are small groups of colleagues you routinely turn to for task advice or emotional support. One of the best examples we have seen of this was at Awethu, a startup incubator in South Africa. Encourage employees throughout the organization to build developmental networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Even more important than access to capital, some analysts say, is access to advice. New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." There's no "score" an idea has to exceed to make it to the more formal round.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Working in conjunction with an accelerator program, startups can network in an incubated environment, where all parties are encouraged to collaborate. Politics and the defense industry are intertwined, but if you want some advice from us? Thirdly, they open doors to funding and investment. Funding for defense projects is even harder.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

The only problem with this advice — as my fellow blogger Vikram Mansharamani pointed out recently — is that as business becomes more volatile and uncertain, the ability to work across specialties becomes more important. As one of my clients advises his mentees, " Declare a major and stay with it."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

It''s perilously easy for corporate innovators to skate past the why and the how, particularly those working in new-growth groups or incubators. One final piece of advice: be wary of well-intentioned executives who express discomfort about approaching innovation in a structured way or about placing boundaries on innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. My own experience as a prospective mentee bears out the importance of knowing what specific advice you want from a mentor. This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

Who do you turn to for advice on managing others (and, for that matter, yourself)? Even though I’d been working with professional women for about a decade," she writes about becoming a boss two years ago, "I failed to come up with even one mentor-type figure I felt like calling up for advice." No one, writes journalist Ann Friedman.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. 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. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. What did they come up with?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Burris recommends heeding advice from Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck by trying to cultivate a growth mindset whereby colleagues are willing to challenge themselves and grow. . “Lay the groundwork to show you care about them, and you are on their side,” he says. “I thought his skills could be better used on the back-end.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. They need clients — that is, purchase orders — far more than advice or capital. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As they built up a unique network of thousands of entrepreneurs across 35 countries, they started to see that there was a lot of demand in reverse — companies kept asking them for advice on how to become more entrepreneurial instead of wanting to simply connect with entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators. This is not what the media makes it out to be.”.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

DAVID: Great, great advice. So I’m incubating this idea. Now, there is one chapter I especially loved in the book. It’s the one that I keep going back to, mostly because you made it easy for me by making an acronym. But it’s this idea of putting yourself on “SHOUT.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. The advice VCs give isn’t always that good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Denizens of incubators well know the benefits of working in the same building with other aspiring entrepreneurs, who share their passions, frustrations, odd hours, advice, and companionship. WE’LL LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON FOR YOU. Would Coworking Give Your Business an Edge? Fast Company).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

We were interrupted five times by entrepreneurs stopping in the MIT Sloan School cafeteria to thank Ed for investing, or for making a key introduction, or for giving good advice. Clearly Roberts was a key feature of the ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Cambridge. Finding these hidden heroes should be part of your research gathering.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Consumers are more tightly connected now and are more likely to follow word-of-mouth (or word-of-keystroke) advice than in the past. Another is to put semi-autonomous incubator groups in charge of smaller and softer launches. Food fads develop quickly in today’s marketplace. One is through M&A.

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