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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Want to start up in France? billion online in the first quarter of this year. So what are you waiting for?

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The Spending Power Of Millennials And Industries We’re Not Killing

YoungUpstarts

Finance journalist Roger Aitken has explored this and explained , “Blockchain and related IT of the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is argued to be perfectly positioned to harness these tendencies thanks to increased Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication and better customer incentivizing methods via tokenization.”.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. When we ship product. But would you expect Apple to reveal its product details before launching? We will do that. Time will tell. Obviously.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I had someone willing to offer me a job in France.

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