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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas. Open the Website.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

A resume from the underground is full of hustle and street skills that aren't acknowledged by employers. That is to say, given the applied "street smarts" and talent — the art of the hustle, the leadership and prowess of running a drug business — what is it all worth?

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

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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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s that the U.S.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. There are also 17 ‘skill booster’ courses that aim to provide transferable skills to help aid any transition into the local labor market.