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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. Maybe more importantly, you need to accept that there are no rules to success, that most business books you should never have read, and that you must consider each situation in the unique context of its people and market opportunity, with common sense and humility.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book. annual GMV.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. That’s it.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I It’s the third side of the triangle — the oft-neglected, misunderstood, and underfunded soft edge — that constitutes my book. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. I call this the “hard edge.”)

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How Israel and the Arab World Connect Through Technology

David Teten

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. “The INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS.

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