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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

I mean people out there don't realize the cost per click for advertising is going down. The customer acquisition costs are going down. ER : One of the things that Sam Altman said struck me was that during a boom the only thing that gets cheaper is cost of capital, everything else gets more expensive. People like your product."

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? We need to wait for the government to fix it."

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role.

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