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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Fast forward to today.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.”

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so.

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Finally, a Good Idea from Congress (And It Helps Start-Ups)

Harvard Business Review

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. payroll), towards the R&D tax credit.