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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Harvard Business Review

Fresh off eight blockbuster successes in a row in 2008, he was arguing in his article “ How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity ” that people exaggerate the importance of the initial idea, whereas, as he put it simply, “talent is rare.” This astonished Catmull.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Here’s how.