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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . Marketing: How much to spend on marketing.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Engines of creation. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. Similarly, organizations that manage marketing more as a platform than a process identify, segment, and service their customers dramatically differently than those that don’t.

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Overwhelmingly, those IoT 1.0

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Why Is Capital Afraid of Cities?

Harvard Business Review

What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities. Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job.

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Seeing Robots Everywhere

Harvard Business Review

Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run. Seeing a potential revenue stream to fund more research robot development, the team set up a company, BeatBots , to make a very pared-down version with the same look and feel available to the consumer market. The list goes on.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. and the U.K.