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When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
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In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a … Continue reading
Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate
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My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting, and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The … Continue reading
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Why Innovation Dies
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Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.” I was reminded how innovation dies when the email below arrived in my inbox. It was well written, … Continue reading
Search versus Execute
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One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution…read full post. Download MP3
Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA
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This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue.But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come from?..read full post. Download MP3
How the iPhone Got Tail Fins – Part 2 of 2
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By the early 1920’s General Motors realized that Ford, which was now selling theModel T for $290, had an unbeatable monopoly on low-cost automobile manufacturing. Other manufacturers had experimented with selling cars based on an image and brand. (The most notable was … Continue reading
How the iPhone Got Tail Fins – Part 1 of 2
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It was the most advanced consumer product of the century. The industry started with its innovators located in different cities over a wide region. But within 20 years it would be concentrated in a single entrepreneurial startup cluster. At first … Continue reading
Why Governments Don’t Get Startups
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Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur” and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach, and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. After poring through stacks … Continue reading
It’s Not How Big It Is – It’s How Well It Performs: The Startup Genome Compass
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What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near death experiences along the way. Simply put,while … Continue reading
Hiring – Easy as Pie
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Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten involved in hiring for two startups, a public agency and a non profit. Part of each conversation was getting asked to help them put together a “job spec.” I had them leave with a … Continue reading
