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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market

Harvard Business Review

Pentagon procurement procedures have long complicated commercial software companies’ entrance into the defense market difficult, but the authors’ experience working with both tech startups and the defense industry leads them to believe that now is a good time for companies to enter the market.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Venture investors look for home runs. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. It's rare to find a company using complementary technology across the entire data value chain. Too often, mismatched technologies force algorithms to fly half blind.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.