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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings. The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

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Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. ask only simple easy questions – that should be clear in the first 5 sec.). Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Community of practice. What’s your core value?

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On the Road to Recap:

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While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” Caveat emptor.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? I started to go to some community college classes on programming and things like that, and started to build early websites.

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