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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots. Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective. Ask yourself the following questions: Why should anyone be led by you?

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Prevent Spreadsheets from Strangling Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs are the lifeline of any economy, and high-growth start-ups in particular are responsible for the great majority of new job creation. As a mentor to many start-up entrepreneurs, I find this slow-down concerning, and I see one reason that’s rarely spoken about and needs a closer look: what I call spreadsheet asphyxiation.

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The Social Sector Needs to Take More Risk and Accept Failure

Harvard Business Review

If we think about what venture capitalists do well it boils down to this: Identifying the right opportunities, backing the right people, and finding ways to help entrepreneurs succeed. Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately, an increasing number of pioneering entrepreneurs have in fact been challenging traditional firm structures. They can launch new for-benefit ventures by leveraging their products and services, know-how, core competencies, and assets to develop market-based solutions to particular social or environmental challenges.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. What is your business’ core competence? You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Biocon's core competency lies in building and orchestrating global innovation networks — the cornerstone of a polycentric innovation model. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers.

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