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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

Somewhat counterintuitively, they argue that mandatory military service helps build entrepreneurial culture. ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. .… The numbers were grim. has increased from 10% to 18%.

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

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In 2014 a graduate student at Stanford named Etosha Cave and two colleagues began their entrepreneurial journey. This is a dangerous mindset.