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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

More than two-thirds of them never deliver a positive return to investors. Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. False Positives. Does that startup have a proven business model? T HE FACT IS most startups fail.

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The 5 Habits of Mind that Self-Made Billionaires Possess

Leading Blog

Combining sound judgment with imaginative vision, Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models. Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. Management'

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At the High End, Reaching a Mass Market

Harvard Business Review

The first five seasons of the "Live in HD" program had received mostly positive reviews in the community. The Met, with his inclusive strategy, has activated a mass market outside the confines of the theatre and of the traditional affluent and aging opera lover. It has also been a commercial success.