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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. Randal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn't.

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Getting Buy-In for Innovation that Doesn’t Fade at the End of the Quarter

Harvard Business Review

In fact, given the risk-averse culture of the organization and the tough market environment, you suspect they will likely re-evaluate within six months. Examples of constraints are regulatory, legal and ethical issues, or infrastructural or technological restrictions. Then you start worrying. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation'