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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

What we didn’t envision was that one creative corporate VP would take that post and build a world-class corporate innovation program around it. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Subscriber Content Read Preview.