What valuable service is not yet being provided? Answering this question is the first step toward creating a company that don’t have to bother with competitors. Peter Thiel asks this question often in Zero to One. Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, which provides wide array of unorthodox rules underlying creation of […]
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How to surf on edge of next industrial revolution and profit from convergence of communication, energy, and transportation infrastructure? In The Zero Marginal Cost Society J. Rifkin explains tremendous shift in new forms of communication, energy creation and distribution, and transport and logistics resulting in new industrial revolution that is happening now. According to J.
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Have you wondered how Facebook attracts and retains growing population of mobile technology start-ups? FbStart is start-up corporate accelerator of Facebook levaraging development and growth of early stage start-ups working on mobile applications. Facebook together with partners such as Adobe, Salesforce, MailChimp, Hootsuite, or UserTesting offers package of tools, services, mentorship, and community opportunities designed to grow
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Some time ago I had the great privilege to attend a seminar in Warsaw, Poland, on Swiss start-ups support ecosystem led by Jacques Hefti – Head of Start-up Campus at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAw). Support for start-ups in Switzerland is quite remarkable. Reports of Innovation Union Scoreboard confirm its overall leading innovation performance in
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Start-Up Europe is a platform aggregating several organizations, supported by European Commission,that contribute to European start-up ecosystem. Start-Up Europe is a part of European Union (EU) Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. That is why its mission is to connect players of local start-up ecosystems in EU countries, including connecting start-ups, entrepreneurs, and researchers with start-up accelerators,
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There is number of new models improving forms of support available for early-stage companies, including start-ups in particular. Except start-up accelerators or Venture Capital firms we’d been already writing about at the blog, some other phenomena have been elaborated by NESTA. NESTA, which brand promise is “Making Innovation Flourish” has been founded by National Lottery
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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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I don’t know entrepreneur, who wouldn’t like Tony Spark, described by himself as “genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist”, and played by Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man movie series. Why do we start with Iron Man in the post of Elon Musk, know as Tesla Motors founder? Despite sheer entrepreneurial zest Elon Musk and Tony
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Estonia has become the first country in the world to offer e-residency with state-proven digital identities giving an access to registering businesses, signing contracts, online banking, education, healthcare and thousands of other local services. Until now Estonia has issued more than 1 100 000 of e-ID cards. Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia with population
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To one of the entrepreneurs I’ve good fortune to meet. For that she finds time to dream big on fostering empathy of humanity in between of work, studies and basketball practices. In the past people called them visionaries, humanitarians, philanthropists, reformers, saints or great leaders. Nowadays social entrepreneurs emerge from every walk of life. Who
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