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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. Otherwise, schedule a conference call. For example, if your ad spends cap is reasonable, you can consider running your ad.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. A local media mogul had already offered $3 million to get an Unamano affiliate going. Miami certainly qualified.

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Working Out Your New Business on a Shoestring Budget

Strategy Driven

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. Make the Most of Social Media. In such cases, the need for physical office spaces becomes inevitable.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Working Out Your New Business on a Shoestring Budget

Strategy Driven

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. Make the Most of Social Media. In such cases, the need for physical office spaces becomes inevitable.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Incubated at Y Combinator, the venture was aimed squarely at the most important, most reliable, most consistent mobility need that consumers have every day: getting to and from work. “We are getting pull from enterprises,” Ford Mobility head Marcy Klevorn said recently on a media conference call.