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Three Questions to Consider Before Deciding Where to Locate Your Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). The short version: it’s just plain harder to get funding, sell your business, or simply survive outside of the super-hubs.

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

Harvard Business Review

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); So if you want innovation, individuals must to be taught to do four things: Challenge invisible orthodoxies.