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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Determine your Potential Market. If its market share or product offering is too strong and stable, it will be more difficult to enter the market. Part 3 Creating a Marketing Plan. If your uptime is close to zero, you need to consider how to use social media effectively. How many people actually use what you offer?

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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. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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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. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise.

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

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

Eight years ago, it was important for me to get to know marketing and sales leaders in other companies as we were rebuilding these functions. 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. Meet at least three new people.

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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.” ” Or, “ I left that place.”

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter.