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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

This came to mind a couple of years ago when I had the chance to sit down with the president of South Korea and she asked a small gathering of 19 tech & business leaders for opinions about how to make the Korean economy more “creative.” 2) Appendix (1) — A list of Abraham Lincoln’s failures. (2) — My

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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

Tomas Pueyo : I am a public author but about a completely different topic. If you only have one data point though or one data source, like China, that's not very reliable, but as soon as you start having South Korea and Iran and Italy, now you have four sources from different countries, different organizations.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

It reminds me of the old saying on the topic. I was at a private meeting with 20 people and the president of South Korea and she was asking us what we thought made the US tech ecosystem so great. But markets don’t generally love failure. “Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.”

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

The Next Web

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. Max Weber would probably tell you this value is inspired by misgiving and envy rather than a collective desire to be authentic – but that’s a topic for another time.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. I realized that these were the EXACT type of topics that needed to be covered and there was a hungry audience of folks that wanted to talk about them. Thanks to Ashley Jacobs, Sitting for a Cause ! #15-

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How To Reach Millennial Clients With Digital Currency

YoungUpstarts

Digital currency is a popular topic in today’s financial landscape. Over in South Korea, 100 million credit cards and 20 million bank accounts were comprised — all thanks to a single employee at the Korea Credit Bureau. by Stan Stalnaker, Founding Director of Hub Culture. And for good reason.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? just an example)).