Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. Sharing knowledge-from-experience in online forums reaches young entrepreneurs and opens relationship possibilities. They love mentors and thrive when they have them. Even more important than access to capital, some analysts say, is access to advice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As part of this journey, Cat launched a program called Defy Ventures , in New York, that provides a business incubator for ex-offenders who then have an opportunity to compete for $150,000 in seed capital for their businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. In the start-up world, there’s a big focus on business incubators such as YCombinator–perhaps too much focus. Most stagnate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Here are five steps an “intrapreneur” can take to create a Mission Analysis that satisfies the concerns and needs of both the corporate parent as well as the entrepreneurial business: Begin with the “What,” a clear and actionable mission for your business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

could launch a program of industry fellowships to pay recent engineering and business retirees to help SMMs as well as to “coach” next generation of manufacturing start-ups, business incubators, and technology accelerators. Finally, there’s a straightforward way to help SMMs boost their own expertise: The U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. The idea was that by the end of the four year period, the student would gain a double degree from the two institutions they had studied via.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The city of Wuxi in Eastern China has launched a high-profile, high-tech business incubator to lure back Chinese brainiacs who’ve gone abroad to study and work in science and engineering. But there’s one snag: the business climate in China is not exactly conducive to supporting the relatively high failure-rates of new ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Most of the recommended remedies—idea wikis, business incubators, online collaboration, design thinking, “authentic” leadership, et al —are no more than minor tweaks. As the winds of creative destruction continue to strengthen, these infirmities will become even more debilitating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The project is radically agnostic about the water hubs, and contemplates uses in the different centers as wide ranging as a business incubator, a lighthouse, a lab for the study of wildlife, a kayak depot, and a place of contemplation.

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