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Where’s the Loyalty?*$!

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From there, Shackleton and five men embarked in one of the lifeboats on an eight-hundred-mile voyage through some of the planet’s stormiest waters, landing more than two weeks later at South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

If groundbreaking artists like Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, and Frida Kahlo were alive today, I’m sure they’d be experimenting with DALL-E. DALL-E is a highly accessible AI assistant that makes it easy for everyone to tap their inner Leonardos. Visual expression can’t exist without technology.

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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. We taught the first two classes of 25 teams each, and then in March of 2012 trained faculty from Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan how to teach the class at their universities. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development.

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

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Braselton, Georgia, located about 50 miles north of Atlanta was sold to Basinger by the Braselton family for $20 million, and she hoped to make it into a tourist attraction and bring a film festival there. Is there any business that the Donald doesn’t have a hand in?