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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Brian Chesky, one of the cofounders of Dot & Bo, once said, “Initially, each idea and mock-up we developed for the company was completely and utterly wrong.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. Soon after, she and her technical cofounder also received a grant from Cyclotron Road.

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A Crisis Doesn’t Bring Colleagues Together

Harvard Business Review

One of the first is from Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, who in 2009 argued that we will eventually live in fear of being judged on everything we''ve ever done or said. New York Magazine When health care start-up cofounder Joshua Kushner had a sore throat, he didn''t call a doctor. There are several strong arguments and methods for this.