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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. The question is, can MBA entrepreneurs really think big? Key Insights. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Word That Could Represent Them and Their Business in 2019

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners of a word that could represent their business in 2019. On the personal side, I moved to my favorite city, Vienna, Austria, met great new friends and generally had a lot of fun this year. Tennin, Lady Mirage Global, Inc. ! #8- Here’s what they had to say: #1- Consistent.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. The Global Competitiveness Index is based on 12 pillars of competitiveness, which together provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness landscape in 139 economies around the world at all stages of development.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. To succeed in this ambitious initiative, the academic, business, and entrepreneur communities will need to collaborate closely. In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. Eric Ries : And Jason, just for those that don't know, was a long time civic tech entrepreneur.