The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

At BMI Lab we wanted to learn how they did it, so we travelled to China with some clients, visiting companies, factories, labs and universities to find the recipe for the secret sauce of Chinese innovation. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). But how was this possible?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy. Eighty-seven percent of young people want to pursue entrepreneurship. This must change.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 6, 2017

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Ultimately, it’s a story about an ambitious and flawed entrepreneur with a desire for more — and along the way there is so much to learn. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Organizations join ANDE because they share the common mission of increasing the prosperity of poor people in emerging markets, believing that supporting entrepreneurship and market-based solutions is part of a sustainable approach to poverty reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Recently, TFA introduced a program to promote entrepreneurship in education called the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Adapted from the paper "Spawning Entrepreneurial Leaders: The Impact of the TFA Career Experience on New Ventures in Education," to be delivered at the 2011 Academy of Management meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

What should it mean to employers that someone has successfully completed a core course in Machine Learning or Hadoop? The ability to measure and assess real learning and skills acquisition in virtual environments will. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Or will be badges be won by passing a demanding array of standardized virtual tests?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn? A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And for-profit companies have something to learn from our philosophy — by putting social good at the center of their business models. By using the tools already at their disposal, corporate leaders can ensure that social entrepreneurship is not a passing trend, but a movement that will make a difference on a large scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. For every study that shows it does, another study comes along and says that startups should learn by doing. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). The truth, though, is that we just don’t know if it pays to plan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If you want general hustle, do they have a track record of entrepreneurship, or at least holding a series of jobs? As a 2011 graduate working as a receptionist put it in the Times article, "I am over $100,000 in student loan debt right now. For programmers, what are their TopCoder or GitHub scores?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Letting go of anything critical to business outcomes is a challenge, but successful entrepreneurs have all learned to replace themselves – and serial entrepreneurs even develop it as a skill. A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After working with dozens of complex companies and observing hundreds more, what I've learned is that the companies that create the next big thing are the ones who go beyond talking about doing things differently; they work through the denial, resistance and inaction, and truly shift and adapt. Become learning machines. 24 / share.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even though interest in entrepreneurship is at its highest in India, the country has a nominal seed capital infrastructure. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. If one assumes each angel deal was $300,000 per deal, then about 100,000 deals were done in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. But unschooled entrepreneurship is unlikely to end happily for most. The message for aspiring entrepreneurs?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. Why spend your time trying to convince investors to invest, when you could spend the same time convincing prospective customers to buy — or perhaps learning why they won’t — before you burn somebody else’s money!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

And what, in turn, can more traditional offices learn from them?). Spanish-born Roberto Alcazar, who started his branded content agency EOIntegration.com at Grind at the end of 2011, told me one of the things he likes about Grind, "is that you get to interact whether you want to or not. What makes these co-working spaces so attractive?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Ozon raised $100 million in 2011 from a consortium of investors, including the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten , to continue to build out infrastructure and expand into new categories. Entrepreneurship Global business Retail COD' It has moved into other product categories such as travel with Ozon.travel. Once a copycat succeeds, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Younger people are especially hungry both to learn and to receive affirmation that they are doing a good job. The corollary here is that you can't tolerate learned helplessness. Post-mortems are critical accelerators of their learning process. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8 banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. And we must learn to treat this new and growing phenomenon with care. billion in 2012. will not be legalized until 2013).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Much of what the company learned about its customers in the services mode has been developed into its product, although a good percentage of revenues still comes from services. Entrepreneurship' Silicon Valley’s top venture firm made a sizable investment at a high valuation in a company that was bootstrapped using services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

We took these learnings into account when we launched the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Learning during the Opportunity SPRINT that the small pediatric market wouldn’t support the creation of a new device, we ultimately paired this team with Boston Scientific to adapt the company’s existing technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Today, he is using his telecom industry expertise to help San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee launch the nation’s first entrepreneurship-in-residence (EIR) program for cities. As a Fuse Corps fellow you gain hands-on experience for a year while also learning the tools and strategies to apply beyond your placement.” .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. So, how does this get resolved?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. After raising $5.1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

What I learned from this disastrous magazine venture is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners. As we vet investments for our fund, a key aspect of our due diligence is assessing our partners, particularly learning how they react under stress.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Stephen Wunker is the author of Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don't (McGraw-Hill, June, 2011). Necessity truly is the mother of invention.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

What I’ve learned about keeping a team cohesive after an acquisition is that ultimately, it’s not what you do to try to retain everyone — after an acquisition you can only do so much — but about the type of people that you choose to hire in the first place. Employee retention Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. Doing so presents its own risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

But they soon learned that 80 percent of babies that die prematurely in developing nations like Nepal are born at home in villages, far from well-equipped hospitals and without access to regular electricity. In 2011, Embrace piloted the product in India, where 1.2 million premature babies die each year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

When economic data and media portrayals conflict like this, I have learned to trust the data on relatively stable phenomena, but pay attention to anecdotal evidence that something new and different is happening that doesn''t show up yet in the data. percentage in 2011: 21.9). So what''s up? I''ve got two hypotheses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011. What We Learned. Should she influence the quality of care of more patients? Or keep margins healthy?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

A 2011 study by Partnership for a New American Economy found that 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing U.S. But you can still learn to think like one. Examining 250 recently-issued U.S. patents chosen at random, AdTI found that over 19% of them were issued to immigrants alone, or to immigrants collaborating with U.S.-born

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. This is a dangerous mindset. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. However, I soon learned that hiring the best and brightest would be a lot harder than I thought. To overcome these factors, I learned to pay a lot more attention to the personal and family dynamics of hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. What helped Trolltech ultimately save the relationship was learning how to set expectations appropriately in light of the divergent cultures.

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