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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

It became PayPal and he held 11% of the stock when it was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5B. In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars. In his own way he wants to use science and entrepreneurship to make the world a better place. In 2008 he became CEO and product architect.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002.

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Starting a Business Can Increase Older Workers’ Quality of Life (Even When It Doesn’t Pay Well)

Harvard Business Review

This demographic trend has important implications for the labor market. Entrepreneurship is not always about the money, and late-career individuals who voluntarily transition to it are generally better off. Among them, 115 switched to entrepreneurship, 464 switched to another job, and 2272 remained in the same job.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. No other metric more important to an organisation than its profitability.

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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. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Certainly, equity investors believe the Fed's low interest rate policies make the stock market a better bet for higher returns. What do they all have in common?

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The JOBS Act, Groupon, and Gullible Investors

Harvard Business Review

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act , whatever its eventual impact on entrepreneurship and economic growth, has already accomplished some remarkable things. Such regulations, if they succeed in increasing the information flow between managements and markets, are also good news for investors in general.