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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

And speaking of capitalism, George Papandreou’s, the former Prime Minister of Greece and the poster child for the European economic crisis, TED Global talk is already live. And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many. Edinburgh is, after all, one of the birthplaces of capitalism.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

And the “Uber of Greece” is in Greece – not exactly the next big market. Jeanne Sullivan , co-founder, StarVest Partners, strongly recommends creating an advisory board, especially in the early days. That advisory board would be able to say, ‘Don really knows what to do and how to do it: organized, smart, and more.’”.