Palo Alto, which name derives from old coastal redwood tree is located in Santa Clara County, US, approx. 50 km south of San Francisco, and 20km north of San Jose. The city is famous not only because of its innovative community and being headquarters to companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, or Tesla. The city is […]
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I’ve been interested in start-up accelerators for years, but recently as I chose them to be the topic of my MBA master thesis I’ve started to directly interact with, and research them deeper. Here are the some of my findings that you might find useful in preparation and growth of your new ventures. So what
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WebBusiness focused shows, summits, and exhibitions are not only are stimulative for intellect, and broaden the horizons for your daily brain-pumps. In fact, by participation in entrepreneurship focused events you can make new acquaintances and start developing relationships with business new-comers, succeeding start-ups, or big-name corporations. So when and where you should make an
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As a start-up enterpreneur could you imagine having direct access to mentors ready to support all aspects of your business strategy and its execution? As a mentor wouldn’t it be great to become official member of advisory board in a start-up working on breakthrough technology? There are plenty of advantages of having official
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As an investor supporting new businesses in return for profit, or entrepreneur focused on growing your business you might be interested in different aspects of today’s venture capital firms. According to one of studies, from mid-nineties of 20th century till today over 286 million of new ventures were launched globally, and 19 thousand of them had
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Institute for the Future founded in 1968 in the US was set up by people, who imagined a world in which it is possible to improve human lives and build better institutions by thinking systematically about the future. As they say the future is everything we can imagine – the fearsome, the inspiring, the inexplicable,
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Collaboration around innovation works best when people have space to talk to each other. Pretty rarely sparks of enlightenment and – so needed – sheer enthusiasm happen when communication is narrowed down to virtual reality only. Slush is an event that answers those needs. Organized in Helsinki in Finlandia between 11-12th of November 2015
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In one of my favorite MBA case study books I found a particularly interesting anecdote illustrating importance of always having some kind of plan, even if you feel it is not the accurate at all. The anecdote was originally described by K.W. Weick in “Cartographic myths in organization” and goes like this: During
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How to make friends and influence people? For those, who don’t know Dale Carnegie it’s worth mentioning that he was not only selling beacon and soups in beginning of 20thcentury for Armour & Company in Chicago, but also wrote couple of books. And one of them has been read by 50 million people and was translated
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If you are a company based in Poland, or you consider to set up your business in Poland soon, and you are interested in commercialization for your research, development and innovation works abroad, you might be interested in GO_GLOBAL.PL – a call for co-financing to be announced by Polish National Centre for Research and Development.
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