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Four Questions to Ask Before Scaling Your Business

Strategy Driven

While it’s unclear who said it first, it’s been used regularly at business conferences to fire up audiences over the last few decades. I like to explain entrepreneurship as seeing the world the way it ‘ought’ to be and creating products or services to make that a reality. About the Author.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Conference

Harvard Business Review

Conferences are an overwhelming rush of presentations, conversations, and potential meet-ups, and it can be tough to know where to focus your time. Professional conferences are an unavoidable fact of working life. “Skipping conferences is problematic because you’re missing out on the benefits of networking,” she says.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Design Conferences. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

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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The Pitfalls (and Upsides) of Partnering with Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch. (No

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Investing in Start-Ups: For Love and Money

Harvard Business Review

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. It may not be that the idea is bad, but rather your idea doesn't do what early stage investors, or venture capitalists (VC) want done.