Category Archives: Startups

Do Corporate Accelerators Create Real Value?

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post first appeared on the Front End of Innovation Blog) Corporate intrapreneurship is relatively new business concept aimed at helping large companies advance their disruptive innovation initiatives. Due to its novelty and immaturity, this model of corporate innovation obviously needs … Continue reading →

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Why Do Startups Fail?

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

I came across a March 2015 TED talk by Bill Gross, founder of the business incubator Idealab. He set out to identify the “single biggest reason why startups succeed” (or fail). To do so, he considered the five major factors: … Continue reading →

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Start-ups as an enemy of entrepreneurship?

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

On July 27, The Telegraph published a column offering a blistering criticism of start-ups and what it’s calling a “start-up culture.” As the column author, Lucas Mikelionis, argues in the header, “Start-up culture is corrupting our youth and killing real … Continue reading →

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