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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. Cofounders are crucial. One said, “Most technical founders don’t have a clue about how venture finance works, and as a result they can get screwed by VCs.”

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

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. But to realize this potential, established companies will need to fundamentally revisit their business models and cultures.

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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. Both cohorts can bridge cultural and geographical gaps.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Soon after, she and her technical cofounder also received a grant from Cyclotron Road. This is a dangerous mindset.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) And there are other models worth exploring to improve racial inclusion in high-tech entrepreneurship and within the tech industry.