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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. Startup Lessons'

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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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. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. You didn’t join startups then.

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Bitcoin Developments in Denmark

The Startup Magazine

The Swiss city of Zug has been dubbed the “Crypto Valley” due to the large number of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups that are based there. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and France have all seen a growing number of people using and investing in bitcoin.

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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. When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. Want to start up in France?

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. 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. Mine was to live in Spain but I could only make France happen. Close enough.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

Both Sides of the Table

I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Startup Advice' If there was any society in which being a hustler was out of step with the norm is was England. Very few people do.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”