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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. New technologies like artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are leading to not only life-saving cures, but potential solutions to climate change.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). It can be defined as a holistic view of a company's bundle of products and services that are of value to the customer (Osterwalder 2004).

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework. The digital revolution.

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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

In the same year, Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX to build commercial vehicles for space travel. In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. The Washington Post had to transition from a “newspaper” company to a “media and technology company.” He then should have invested that money in technology. But it did.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Technology, business, or corporate development background. Strong investment expertise from other CVCs and IVCs.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Technology, business, or corporate development background. Strong investment expertise from other CVCs and IVCs.