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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

The weird part is that USA and China both surveil their citizens, though the Chinese government isn’t making a secret of tracking their citizens, while the USA is pretending it’s about security when clearly it’s not. power than elected governments. I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. The next step would be to secure funding. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Patricia Jumi Co-Founder at The Growth Hub.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. How do you achieve some level of economic security? It was 1999. After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there. You just started building.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

ReadWriteStart

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. In addition to targeting a wider customer base, internationalizing your startup can be a competitive edge in securing funding.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And by the way, Salesforce.com has gotten much better at security. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.