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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

It would be like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. We’d rather partner with those firms.” Some of our competitors offered on-premise solutions and that was ok. ” Boom.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.