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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

As a result, they and their ideas may be discounted by the platform because they’re not the intended target market. At the end of the day, the reason most of these platforms are dominated by men is because all the venture capitalists and engineers and other founders are mostly men,” the researchers conclude. “If

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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

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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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. Andy O’Connell Maybe Not Does Innovation Always Lead to Gentrification? Pacific Standard Every struggling city hopes to grow an “innovation district” that will populate its old brick warehouses with teams of brainy entrepreneurs.

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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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Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Medieval France

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. They’re not.