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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

You can also take finance from venture capitalist or angel investor. Angel investors are high-value individuals, and venture capitalists are companies. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. There are three important things I will take away from this year: The West is overly discounting Asia's growth potential.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. Innovation Project management'

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Everything You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know About the Pallet Industry

Harvard Business Review

Or hate it, depending on where you stand on the ebook-discount fight being waged on your laptop and tablet. Publishers must therefore rebuild their cost structure by doing such things as “moving to a less fancy office and lowering [managers’] salaries.” Andy O’Connell Maybe Not Does Innovation Always Lead to Gentrification?

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The Pitfalls (and Upsides) of Partnering with Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Let’s start with the pitfalls, because these are often ignored or discounted in frothy discussions about the economic benefits of entrepreneurship. Often, they come to find that the majority of new ventures don’t understand corporate decision cycles, purchasing requirements, compliance processes, post sales customer service, and the like.

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Four Simple Low Resolution Innovation Tests

Harvard Business Review

Imagine you had an idea for a one-week seminar that intersects strategic innovation and design thinking, bringing together world-class speakers, global attendees and unique tools. Participants would build businesses in real time and get feedback — and potentially funding — from venture capitalists.