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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. For many Westerners, Victoria Island resembles the polar opposite of the imaginary Manhattan Island, the high-security prison depicted in John Carpenter’s film Escape From New York. But somehow Lagos works.

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Try On The Decision For 30 Days

Feld Thoughts

My whole world blew up in 2001. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. I was in New York for it, having taken a redeye the night before from San Francisco. I was on way too many boards (over 25 – including four public company boards) so the entire thing was a total s**t show.

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Bringing Depression Out of The Shadows In Startups

Feld Thoughts

A: After I became depressed for the second time, in my mid-30s — in 2001 just after Sept. The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. I was in New York City after a red-eye from San Francisco, landing at 6 a.m.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. That is a great opportunity for Booth students. Groupon is not the only success story for Lefkofsky and Keywell.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Loading… New York. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Apple Safari.