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[Review] How China’s Leaders Think

YoungUpstarts

Censorship is necessary, Cai says, because China is evolving from a planned economy to a market-based one. The nation-building blueprint was ratified into the Chinese Communist Party’s Constitution in 2007. Li Yuanchao, for instance, was stated as the party secretary of Jiangsu when Liang Baohua has already succeeded him since 2007.

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Reclaiming The American Dream

YoungUpstarts

They see hedge-funders and investment bankers as having hijacked the American Dream from the middle class. workplace has become an investor-driven market, a place where workers are treated as disposable cogs who are costs to be minimized rather than capabilities to be maximized on-the-job. They feel lost.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us. Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst. In banking, a lot of my time was spent on modeling cash flows.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was 2007. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.

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The Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It

readwrite.com

Five years ago, Levie figured out that the enterprise ultimately would be a better market than consumer products. Back in 2007, that might have seemed like a crazy thing to do. The Next Market Will Be Bigger. Levie agrees with the premise that massive amounts of revenue and market capitalization will swing over to upstarts.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was 2007. And that’s what it’s like – all superlatives.