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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people. Working in conjunction with an accelerator program, startups can network in an incubated environment, where all parties are encouraged to collaborate.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. Second, bureaucracy, laws, and rules exert particular influence in Greece because they help make life more structured and less uncertain. But Greece cannot stop there.

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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. It goes without saying that finance is an essential element in entrepreneurial innovation, but don’t start with the angel investors or VCs. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy. And they had an annual big survey to gather customer insights.