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Please, Can We All Just Stop "Innovating"?

Harvard Business Review

In the latest issue of Wired , Tim O'Reilly, the brilliant technology thinker and book publisher, offered his corrective on innovation, in this case with respect to entrepreneurs: "The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure. With all of these options to reduce the risk of starting a company, being a career entrepreneur is actually less risky than you think.

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