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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

At an entrepreneurship ecosystems workshop I ran in St. A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. That does not mean government offices are irrelevant to entrepreneurs'' profit and loss statements.

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

Harvard Business Review

Hugh Molotsi , vice president, Intuit Labs Incubator, told us that in the early days (the 1990s), founder Scott Cook taught employees about observing customers and finding real problems in their lives and solving them. But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy.

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What an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Actually Is

Harvard Business Review

In order to strengthen your regional entrepreneurship ecosystem, it is necessary to establish co-working spaces, incubators and the like. According to entrepreneurs the top three challenges everywhere are access to talent, excessive bureaucracy, and scarce early stage capital. But this does not mean that they are right.