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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

Award “Graduation” Green Cards. Create a “High-Skill Immigrant” Green Card. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. China Free Trade Agreement. Create a “Startup Visa” Create CitizenCorps. “Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore” Make the SBA More Entrepreneur-Friendly.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. In the U.S. domestic GNP growth couldn’t touch.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

S&P 500 NASDAQ NYSE Gainers Losers Most Active Wikinvest data is provided as-is, delayed, and subject to Terms TOP VIDEO PICKS 1 of 13 Unimpressive growth for U.S.

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

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). Look at the green, white and red cell colors to focus on certain zones and get a sense for your performance. (In Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools).

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. 10:44) The moment the company went below 1x growth for the first time since it was founded as the pandemic hit China and then Europe. (11:50) Our China business was really affected.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

This bill needs to be passed immediately (it is in the midst of hearings and keeps getting caught up in partisan bickering over broader immigration reform) and should be expanded to provide green cards for those with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. For more on this important bill, read here and here.