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What is the #1 Factor in Whether a Startup Succeeds or Fails?

Destination Innovation

It was an idea ahead of its time and failed to gain market traction. Microsoft launched its tablet computer well ahead of any such Apple products in 2003. Very often a great idea need the technology, infrastructure and market conditions to be accepted. It ran with a pen-based Windows operating system and was big and expensive.

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The promise of open innovation

Exago

While the idea goes back to the 60s, Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the University of California’s Center for Open Innovation, coined the expression ‘open innovation’ in 2003. The post The promise of open innovation appeared first on www.exago.com.

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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan. The way we do it is by fostering more market-creating innovations. Market-creating innovations, such as IguanaFix, can build a sustainable economy and help create stronger institutions. This will ultimately result in better democracies.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”. The turn around in its fortunes has been spectacular.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

2005) that the ´failure to adequately define the market is a key factor associated with venture failure´, we identify the definition of the target customer as one central dimension in designing a new business model. These processes and activities, along with the involved resources (Hedman and Kalling 2003) and capabilities (Morris et al.