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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging).

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Just as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach and mindset toward funding innovation within the private sector, impact investment has started to bring opportunities to harness entrepreneurship and capital markets to drive social improvement. This in time will bring much needed change to the social sector.

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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. Other organizations develop sophisticated models. As mentioned, many venture capitalists use weighted attribute models to sift through the thousands of pitches that land at their doors.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. For example, consider how new business ventures access growth capital. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.