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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Entrepreneurs are driven to pursue their passions no matter the personal costs, societal pressure, family head-scratching or financial consequences. I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. Startup Lessons'

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Aaron Wens on the Lifecycle of Your Ocean-Going Vessel Investments

The Startup Magazine

Investors may be called upon to cover some of the cost of the ship in return for some of the proceeds of the sale. The ship is generally thought of as ready for recycling if the cost of repairs is outweighing the ship’s usefulness. Some of the best-known shipyards are in China, Japan, and South Korea. Shipbuilding Areas.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. The system-to-system interactions to create these complex integrations drive up cost and manufacturing lead times.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

So here’s a five-day playbook to help CEOs of cash-flow negative startups, or ones about to go negative, assess the new normal and respond with speed and urgency. Any place with a fixed cost that relies on foot traffic will come under pressure. For companies burning cash, such as startups, how much cash do you have?

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

2021 was a banner year for Israeli startups, breaking new records in fundraising, new unicorns, and exits. Israeli startups are on fire. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Exits of Israeli startups in 2021 reached $82.4 What comes next? Where are we now?

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I recently wrote a post noting that while the growth cycle of startups has clearly accelerated in the last 5 years, the number of truly monster new businesses (a company ultimately worth $75-100B) remains about the same … it’s a once in a decade sort of thing. February 2, 2012.

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