Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Our system is at risk due to increasing inequality.”. Seniors and the disabled worry they’ll be evicted to make room for well-paid and well-paying urbanizing tech workers cum stock-optionees with Tesla parking spaces worth more than a room in a public retirement home. Entrepreneurship, per se, can create many social goods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

since 1977 has been due to start-ups. It is startups who have generated virtually all of our nation's major technological breakthroughs in the last hundred years — from cars and planes to semiconductors, PCs, software, and the Internet — and in the process sparked the creation of whole new industries and millions of new jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Recently, TFA introduced a program to promote entrepreneurship in education called the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Deep, disruptive economic change is all around us, but the data indicates that the national response has not been, contrary to our myths and history, one of increased entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, when a generation found its voice on the streets of Tunis and Cairo. It saw 5% annual growth for nearly a decade before the global recession, and the International Monetary Fund reports that it's growing strongly again — about 5% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

This morning I participated in a working session between the WEF's Technology Pioneers and Social Entrepreneurs. We had an active and impassioned discussion on global topics including health, water, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and employment. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Most early-stage startups fail due to founder disputes, not the substance of the business. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Not a bad idea, of course. How do you pick the right person?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

And whether you’re in the culinary arts, book publishing or cloud technology, when you become an entrepreneur, work-life balance becomes a thing of the past. There’s a reason why many compare starting a technology company to having a baby. Entrepreneurship' Your work must subsume your life if you want any shot of making it big.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Tech entrepreneurs are not merely akin to Wall Street bankers, a younger, less formal set of oligarchs in waiting. Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.”

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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. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

million in 2011, the first year of the survey. rise since 2011 contrasts with a 1.1% They didn’t really blip much back in 2011, and they’re still not showing up high, but they’re clearly growing fast. And I have to add when I started in tech, networks weren’t that important. You came into this from the tech industry?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. There are basic risks, such as experiencing a cultural mismatch or failing to integrate technically.

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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. With that in mind, how do we find new ways to fund India’s tech startups and build global businesses? India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. Entrepreneurship' Only 3% of U.S. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

There’s a great irony when you consider that the “Big Three” cities for entrepreneurship — San Francisco/San Jose, Boston, and New York — are some of the most difficult places in the U.S. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s

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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? Dental lab techs, chemical equipment tenders, and medical equipment preparers are all jobs that require a degree at least 50% more often than they used to as recently as 2007. For salespeople, what have they sold before?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. Entrepreneurship Managing yourself' LinkedIn has surged over 100%.

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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. Career planning Education Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. Perhaps because the fire of entrepreneurship is still preferable to the frying pan of established corporations. Goldin’s research finds the smallest gender pay gap for women in technology, pharmacies, and tax preparation. rose by 68 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. In some cases, we’ve helped form new start-ups; in others, we’ve built technologies that are changing the way we care for patients at Boston Children’s Hospital. We attribute our success thus far to these elements: Build a business mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia' And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

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. There are also a whole range of sector-specific spaces, specialized for tech, creative, food, or educational professionals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. The so-called tech unicorns, private companies in the tech sector whose value exceeds $1 billion, are playing the same game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Stanford students (grads and dropouts alike) are the clear winners in attracting venture capital money, concludes this first ever University Entrepreneurship Report. Perhaps surprisingly, MIT students were the most likely to start non-tech enterprises, though their science and tech companies were also the most likely to be acquired.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

No doubt the tech startup wins the popularity contest hands down. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” Most of this decline has been due to the continued emptying and consolidation of America’s farms (or, if you prefer, the productivity revolution in U.S. agriculture).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having traveled to the Middle East repeatedly over the past two years, I decided to write a book about the remarkable and little reported on rise of a new generation of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region. Entrepreneurs are watching these dynamics play out in real time: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start. Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies.

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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. For tech-savvy entrepreneurs, that spells a huge opportunity. One year ago, Rahul Mewawalla was a senior executive building out the mobile arm of Nokia.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Omer bootstrapped his company from no revenue or employees to about 45 employees and over $15 million in revenue by the time AgilOne partnered with Sequoia Capital in 2011. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0

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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. On the Friday before one of my key hires, with an impressive background from a top global technology company, was scheduled to start work, I got a nervous sounding call from him.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

When we left Google in 2011 and started UberConference, I learned a third lesson about hiring great talent: look for people who like start-ups. Employee retention Entrepreneurship' The smartest person in the world isn’t a good hire if he or she doesn’t have the will to do the hard work.

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