Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For start-ups looking to achieve leadership positions in emerging and highly competitive global markets, it makes sense to prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE MBAS OF SILICON VALLEY.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. had a government break because they didn’t need to charge taxes and thus consumers got an even better price. Expect a deflationary revolution in the global telecom market – at a minimum for voice services.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. .” – Albert Einstein.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end. What’s Next in 2012….

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. Sean Seton-Rogers of PROfounders Capital recently claimed that of the more than 3,500 business plans they had received, his London, U.K. What is there not to like?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s been quite a journey getting here and there’s still a way to go as cryptocurrencies integrate with our global financial system. He shared his tips for building a global business, hiring, what he’d do differently and more… The Chainalysis journey ? How did you initially think about going global from a sales perspective?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. Austin is positioned to be the biggest winner of them all.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

The global healthcare industry is in flux like never before. Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup. Secure timely funding.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. STOIKY is his callsign. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

But then the credit crunch and global recession took hold, and 2015 is a markedly different landscape for small businesses in need of finance. Generally, these grants will be funded by either the British government or the European Union, but the distribution mechanisms tend to be very local in their scope. In the U.K.,

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. You just started building.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. Or these business models might just fund the global availability of products and services with minimal profits. Networks of capital.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. I see consumer markets harnessed to wag the dog of public sector employers (government, military) and then the private sector. We boot-strapped some more.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Startups are the new MTV. They’ve become a pop culture phenomenon. Bring it on.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

To ease the selection process, we compiled a list of 25+ staffing agencies active globally or in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Founded in the 1980s, Aerotek is a global provider of staffing services covering all major industries. Insight Global. One of the largest staffing agencies founded back in 1960.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Startups are the new MTV. They’ve become a pop culture phenomenon. Bring it on.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

To do that, I think that you need to set it up with essentially a similar kind of venture capital position, because the things that help the companies – the things we do at Greylock and those Series As and the seeds and the Series Bs – is a 10-year cycle of invention and reinvention. And I was like, “Well, okay, you’re super smart.

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