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What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team.

Austin Startup

What is the secret to remote work? Just ask your Sales team. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Lipitor (1997). As the 2016 Rio Olympics came to a close, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the world to Tokyo dressed as Japan’s most famous ambassador – Mario Mario of the world-renowned Mario Bros. In 2016 more than 500 million games featuring Mario had been sold over the previous ten years. Super Mario Bros.

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An Interview with Notation Capital about Starting VC Funds

Feld Thoughts

They walked me through multiple origin stories, including how I started making angel investments (1994), the origin of Mobius / Softbank Venture Capital (1996-1997), the origin of Foundry Group (2007), and the creation of Foundry Group Next (2015-2016).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. People absolutely mesmerize and inspire me and I wouldn’t trade what I do for anything in the world.

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Top 10 Podcasts To Become a More Well-Rounded Human

Austin Startup

Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad. I was shocked by the 2016 election. One of the best discussions I’ve heard in awhile and the way Tim interacted with him had everything to do with the success of the interview. I think many of us were.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001.

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Coinbase

Version One Ventures

We laid out our thesis for the Coinbase investment around 3 points : As early as late 2016, we believed that blockchain/crypto would be the next computing platform and we had made several investments against that thesis already. Relative to how the Internet developed, we might only be in 1997/98.

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