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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. So we simply went too fast and didn’t anticipate how devoted some people still were to that part of our business.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. Optimum Mobility Services. The team is short of Computer Science expertise, and is looking for a co-founder to add to their pack.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

The Outer Limits of Lunar Exploration Hilton F – Space sector representatives will discuss how the use of web and mobile technologies create opportunities for participation in future exploration of the Moon. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. Just as in the mobile battle when Apple goes closed it creates an opportunity for somebody that is substantively open.