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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Determine the Cost of the Operation. You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor. Angel investors are high-value individuals, and venture capitalists are companies. Otherwise, schedule a conference call. Nishil is a passionate writer, hungry for new innovation. Find an Office.

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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. Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co. I want to feel useful, so I start tweeting about it. I am not alone.

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When You Can't Innovate, Copy

Harvard Business Review

To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry. In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable.

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

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. The conversation took place at an inaugural conference called Platform , created by Hank Williams after a provocative series that Soledad O’Brien did on CNN on black entrepreneurship. That VC might not even take the meeting.

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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. At the same time, there is an abundance of local capital ready to deploy to feed new ventures. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply.

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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. In a recent interview , Laszlo Bock, SVP of people operations at Google, said, "One of the things we''ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.''s