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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . But they are more likely to boost the odds of failure by creating yet one more serious problem for management to deal with.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

One could certainly be forgiven for not recognizing such a picture, especially if you’re a regular reader of the technology press, which features a daily exposition of the vast sums being raised by startups around the world. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Is the Drone's Potential Being Shot Down Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

What existing solution-provider, in so doing, might you manage to obliterate? In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. He asked the operators to relocate their activities, and they did.

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When The Customer Isn't Right

Harvard Business Review

Over the last ten years we have been researching deshopping in Britain through two mass market retail case studies and surveys of 150 independent retailers and over 500 consumers. Increasingly, deshoppers are operating in packs when returning goods, suggesting that the activity is becoming organized. Communication. Watchfulness.

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Seeing Robots Everywhere

Harvard Business Review

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run.