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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

And today, the rate of global change is so rapid that even these four year-old estimations are optimistic. As revolutions in AI, biotechnology and manufacturing converge with global political upheavals and environmental issues like global warming, the speed of change will accelerate even more.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Words To Live By.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Pohang Iron and Steel Company, Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate also known as Posco, joined Israel’s Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8 In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. — Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google. Peter and his co-founders were committed to making Prezi a global company. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” Source GigaOM ]. -

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

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