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If The Entrepreneurial Shoe Fits, That Doesn’t Mean You Should Wear It

Terry Starbucker

Carol Roth, author of "The Entrepreneur Equation" Carol Roth is a truth teller. So it was with great interest that I recently read her latest book, “ The Entrepreneur Equation “ The book is a wonderful distillation of all that advice she has given over the years, well sequenced and organized. Well done Carol!

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that the effects of acceleration are remarkably similar for entrepreneurs across countries and even continents. Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. While the managed care movement made a similar run in the early 1990s, the movement towards accountable care, bundled payments , and other population health efforts have not caused the type of backlash that managed care did ?

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. That dialog includes all stakeholders, from the entrepreneurs themselves to investors to government policymakers. It is hell to manage.". Even better. Not" is not a typo.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.