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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

Gucci, for example, has a store on Roblox and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing hosted live fashion shows inside the game. It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup. Saying “no” can be equally important as saying “yes” to a potential partner or client. .

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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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International Do’s and Don’ts For the Traveling Entrepreneur

Up and Running

A perfect example: Bill Gates once shook hands with the President of South Korea (pictured above) and he absent-mindedly kept his left hand in his pocket. See Also From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Don’t believe me? Learn at least the language basics.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. My $30 a month web hosting was crashing because of it.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA. FIVE ISRAELI STARTUPS SHINE IN INNOVATION TOP 100.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. If you then looked at different areas in the world, at the time in South Korea, it was 0.6%. What did South Korea do? His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.