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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The existing European financial SME instruments for scientific startups needs to be adapted and work more effectively with corporate venture funds so that small experiments in selected regions are supported. Maintaining an innovation agenda is paramount for the long-term survival of organizations,” the researchers say.

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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

These products also had lower rates of venture funding and fewer users. Responding to feedback in the right way and at the right time is crucial to the long-term success of any new venture. Possible cause.

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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

That Europe lacks the pazzazz of Silicon Valley in terms of its entrepreneurial output has been a bone of contention across the continent for some time now. One of their proposals would be the development of a Sovereign EU Tech Fund to address the shortfall in funding that undermines the growth of startups across Europe.

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How to improve Klout Score

CEO Blog

And like Google, they will ban or penalize the cheaters in the long term. I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. 4 - Grow your network. Reach out to people and connect. Please tweet this blog post and retweet all the @jimestill you can. Oops sorry - forgot rule 3.

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Managing Shareholders in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. I have to balance between strategic intent and tactical, short-term decision-making.

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Don’t Start a Company with Your Business School Pals

Harvard Business Review

Maybe it’s learning that your co-founder is prepared to work with the wrong venture fund or that they’re actively willing to hide bad results from your board. But by and large, it’s not a sustainable strategy for long-term success. Can B-school partnerships ever work? I’m sure there are some exception cases to the rule.

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