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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

In addition, the availability of cloud and open source technologies has further reduced the cost to get a technology business started as now anyone can get computing and storage capacity in the cloud or build a LAMP stack for a few hundred dollars. And getting bigger and bigger.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

In startup board rooms all across the United States, founders and investors are asking how do we keep scaling our teams? Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. It’s called NSF I-Corps.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. In the United States (and probably elsewhere as well), there are laws that you need to know before you even start the process of trying to hire someone. There are federal statutes and there may be state and local regulations as well. Know the Law.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. Image source ). It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. Musk, by making his fast chargers available to others and open-sourcing Tesla’s patents , has intentionally filled a potential moat. Dig a deep moat.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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