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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. I mean, there was no technology. Let's get started. (00:29):

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Twitter Link Roundup #226 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The embedded presentation above is filled with valuable data on the state of the Internet and trends in technology around the world. How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5. 5 Mistakes Every Startup Founder SHOULD Make – crowdspring.co/1pNJ2R1. 1nJ1vkG.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

Exhibit B: Impersonal automated call technology increases the time we must wait to talk to a human (not to mention our frustration!). Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants his maturing company to start focusing on “loving the people we serve.” What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? Start with a strong vision.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).

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Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

Steve Blank

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.” But then, trouble.

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A Very Short peak into the Metaverse

VC Cafe

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. What is the metaverse?