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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

We recently posed these questions to Harvard Business School alumni founders while designing a new two-year joint degree program that confers both a master of science from Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an MBA from HBS. Cofounders are crucial. ” Negotiations are never-ending.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

Square , a financial services start-up created by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, markets its transaction processing services directly to consumers and small businesses via the Internet. But to be revolutionary Lytro had to make several changes to camera design all at once. Lytro is far from alone in its quest for self-reliance.

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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.