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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. Work for a “Recession-Proof&# Company Granted, no company is completely recession-proof, but sectors like health care, pharmaceuticals, defense, government, and consumer staples do well in good or bad times.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. As our name suggested, we were a social network well before places like Friendster , MySpace, and then Facebook took that concept mainstream. PayPal was one of the few companies that survived this era, and in 2001, eBay acquired us.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. They typically started before high school — sometimes before middle school — and never looked back.

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