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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Internet Marketig tools such as pay-per-click (PPC), social media marekting can help you represent artists from Cheyenne to China.

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. Startups and, increasingly, innovative mainstream companies converge on SXSW to test and launch new concepts. There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. Apple's "Pop-up" store.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. °C (3.8°F)

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What Airbnb Understands About Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”

Harvard Business Review

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. The same is true for Uber, whose founders recognized the unsatisfactorily filled job of urban transportation.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

“We are getting pull from enterprises,” Ford Mobility head Marcy Klevorn said recently on a media conference call. The campuses where many of Chariot’s customers work are large and spread out, and dropping off each passenger at their door wastes time for passengers and Chariot alike.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. No matter what, though, be authentic.

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful. Narcissism.