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

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Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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

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I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. You can’t just name your own price.” Yet I was a foreigner so I got away with being different. “What? ” Me.

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Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet - Terms of Service

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Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet. It’s long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. Google Tightens Up App Policy, Gets Stricter On Naming/Icon,… 7.25.12. Disrupt SF. Klint Finley. posted yesterday. View Staff Page. About & Staff.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program. Its only flaw is its name. For iGAP participants only. Thursday, January 12- London, England London School of Economics At 6:30pm, I’ll present a public lecture at the Department of Management. See you in Europe!

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. My mom organized a trip to take me to France & Israel. I wanted to go native.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). UCLA Anderson).

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Serious talent.