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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Felix Rohaytn, widely credited with saving New York City in the 1970’s, recently published “ Bold Endeavors. ” [1] In it he warns: “The nation is falling apart – literally. In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Technology. Message Center ( new). Loading… New York. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. My Journal.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Plenty of headroom there!

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The Best Movies About Real Business, Not Hollywood’s Version of Business

David Teten

The Devil Wears Prada * – young woman comes to New York and scores her dream job as the assistant to one of the world’’s biggest fashion magazine editors, but struggles to balance the demands of her new role with her prior identity and relationships. Salesman * – the life of the door-to-door salesman.