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Porter’s Diamond Model in Business Strategy

Leapfrogging

For example, Silicon Valleys success as a global tech hub is due to a strong talent pool (Factor Conditions), an early adopter customer base (Demand Conditions), a network of venture capital firms (Related Industries), and intense startup competition (Firm Strategy & Rivalry).

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Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon

hackerearth

Events like these are so important for developers, whether you are a beginner or an advanced software engineer, hackathons are the great equalizer and skill democratizer. The lessons you gain, both in software development, entrepreneurship, and in working as a team will pay dividends down the road.

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Learning How to Master the Art of Your Career

Daniel Burrus

It doesn’t matter what you do for a living — whether you work in medicine or retail, law or construction, software engineering or writing — there’s an art and science to every career. But this isn’t the case; you prefer your dentist over one you have never been to due to their individual touch.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. but elsewhere.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Think Globally, Not Just Digitally

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success. The real-time benefits of “born global” options increasingly outweigh their costs.

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How Startup “Joiners” Are (and Aren’t) Like Founders

Harvard Business Review

PhD students are of particular interest for entrepreneurship researchers because they’re disproportionately likely to be involved in the founding of high-growth firms in science and technology.). ’” Think of the brilliant software engineer who hops from startup to startup but never founds her own.