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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

There are three important things I will take away from this year: The West is overly discounting Asia's growth potential. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible. We're on the verge of a golden age of innovation.

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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' Those that don’t, don’t.

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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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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Insight Center.