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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Usually, adding a little detail to an existing product (such as changing the colour of something) is not enough to start a business, so try more than you think you need. This gives you an overview of a particular model and helps you determine how much you need to manufacture a product or provide the service you are thinking of.

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Four Questions to Ask Before Scaling Your Business

Strategy Driven

While it’s unclear who said it first, it’s been used regularly at business conferences to fire up audiences over the last few decades. I like to explain entrepreneurship as seeing the world the way it ‘ought’ to be and creating products or services to make that a reality. About the Author.

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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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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. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design is everywhere.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. Design is everywhere.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. “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.”