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20 February 2012
Steve Blank on ‘continuous innovation:’ Tech companies aren’t solving 21st century problems | VentureBeat
Eight-time entrepreneur Steve Blank is out of the startup game — which means he’s now free to speak his mind. One of the things on his mind: How venture capital is failing to set a responsible national tech agenda. I called on the serial entrepreneur and father of the “Lean startup” movement for a dose of perspective in the wake of President Obama’s tech-centric State of the Union (SOTU) address. Arguably, the theme of the President’s speech was innovation, which is also core to Blank’s teachings about the business of entrepreneurship.
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19 February 2013
What “Disrupt” Really Means | TechCrunch
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means. They mistake better products for disruptive ones. Silicon Valley was built on a culture of designing products that are “better, cheaper, faster,” but that does not mean they are disruptive. I mistook better, cheaper, faster for disruptive when I became an entrepreneur. This was after I had spent years thinking about disruption as a venture capitalist, and even structured a Stanford Graduate School of Business class around Clay Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.
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18 February 2013
New Research Suggests Start-Up Experience Doesn't Help Social Entrepreneurs | HBR
Do entrepreneurs with prior entrepreneurial experience outperform those who never before launched new enterprises? Conventional wisdom and a raft of research findings say yes, and investors know that it's often wiser to bet on someone who's started something before. But this may not be true for social entrepreneurs. In fact, several of my current research projects are not producing evidence that individuals with prior entrepreneurial experience have superior social performance, more commercial success, or larger online followings.
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17 February 2013
How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups? | TechCrunch
You’re a social entrepreneur wanting to change the world, but are having a hard time scaling your promising idea and achieving lasting impact. In my job as UNICEF Innovation co-lead, I come across hundreds of promising and not so promising technology and social innovation startups every year. While this is an emerging space, many social innovation startups face similar challenges. In this piece I want to provide some practical advice for how social innovation startups can increase their chances of success.
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16 February 2013
3 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Productivity Secrets | Entrepreneur
We're all busy, but how do the super successful mange to fit everything in? How does a thought leader grow a website subscriber base to nearly one million? How does a serial entrepreneur juggle yet another business? We caught up with three high profile entrepreneurs and asked them for their secrets of time management. Each had a method for getting more out of each day. Here’s their advice for small-business owners, entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants to increase their productivity.
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