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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

We all know these people, most often working at large corporates or even the government. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward.

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Everyone will own NFTs

Start Up Blog

This year sales topped $A12.7 While the value of NFTs is crazy big, I can’t help but think that NFT sales wouldn’t be nearly as high if people were buying in fiat currency. All people involved in a property: the owner, the financier and the Government will have access to data related to the property via private keys.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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What No One Ever Tells You About Business Failures

Up and Running

a California corporation, became an Oregon corporation in 1992, and the California corporation died in 1994. So there you see another business dying, but it hadn’t really died. Palo Alto Software, Inc., So there you see another business dying, and see it wasn’t. It never did anything.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. And Beyond….

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13 Negotiating Techniques Taught At The Wharton School Of Business

YoungUpstarts

Where the power dynamic in place is neither a necessary consequence of larger roles and relationships, such as deferring to a government official, nor a good one for advancing a negotiator’s interests, work to change it to your own advantage. Don’t accept a power imbalance that leaves you at a disadvantage. Nobody wants to be left out.