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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

If your uptime is close to zero, you need to consider how to use social media effectively. For example, using social media to promote a cruise line targeting people over the age of 55 is virtually pointless. You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor. Otherwise, schedule a conference call.

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. and Hubert Burda of Burda are onstage talking about their experiences in a transformed media landscape. It's media disintermediation at work! Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Fueling this explosion is a fact of national culture: Indians love media. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply. Yes, there are challenges.

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The Insidious Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

What happens next is often not captured in numbers, but in the fine-print details of recent media reports. Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” The development of new ideas is what allows economies to grow richer year after year.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Learn more about how he or she uses social media. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Consider why incumbents rarely lead the way in new products and services.

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. But there were, as always, interesting things to observe. SXJapan panel.

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