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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. But they are more likely to boost the odds of failure by creating yet one more serious problem for management to deal with. T HE FACT IS most startups fail. So, he set out to find out.

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

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. But as any internet entrepreneur will tell you, relying entirely on people makes scaling difficult. You back up your laptop to the cloud.

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