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The Importance Of Trademarks To Startups

The Horizons Tracker

. “We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance; and an informational role, signaling higher firm quality to investors,” the researchers say. Trademark to success.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Under Fire, Microfinance Faces Falling Out of Favor

Harvard Business Review

Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. It was always meant to be a "social innovation," a way for corporations to make a profit at the same time that they do something good for society. And all of those innovations are opportunities for businesses.

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Don’t Expect New Crowdfunding Rules to Create a Startup Boom

Harvard Business Review

New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. More of these productive, young firms would mean faster economic growth. In theory, more financing should mean better terms for startups, though it’s not clear that that’s how it always works in practice.

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Design at its best is more than just a beautiful interface, it synthesizes complex technology with a deep understanding of end users' motivations and abilities into a unified, intuitive product experience.