Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Beyond the media splash it caused, though, the event was viewed as a breakthrough on many fronts. In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. Technology brings speed and scale to what previously was impractical or unaffordable. The result? The results?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Beyond that, there is mobile, e-commerce affiliate programs, social media, big data, and the fact that it is easier to experiment with and develop new content on digital platforms than it ever was in the physical world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

And if America’s media and cultural elite choose scorn over engagement, the whole economy will suffer. Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role. As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. The six players or organizations that need to be involved in these programs are 1) corporations, 2) foundations, 3) universities, 4) non-government organizations, 5) investors and 6) government. But it is much more than that.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies.

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