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A Surprising Way to Jump-Start Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Meaning that when he was growing up in Alaska, his family lived paycheck to paycheck and relied on Medicaid and the Food Stamp program, yet his parents managed to start a successful vocational-training program for dental assistants. Olds tells Working Knowledge: “What I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. Led by serial entrepreneurs. This is makes it easier to take decisions and put them into practice very swiftly. Financed by VC firms.