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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 What caused a dot-com bubble? credit default swaps anyone?). We were concerned about the panic.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $164B.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. Thiel became an outside board member with his $500K seed investment in Facebook in 2004. in its 2004 IPO, however, the deal made NEA many multiples in returns. When Snap Inc.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Founded: 2004. The company began life as Document Command in 2004.

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