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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

I was born in Iran and I grew up there. Then in 1978, the Iranian Revolution happened, and you know, it was a religious revolution, and the folks who were associated with the Shah or the wealthy families et cetera were not safe and not welcome in Iran. I’ll start with my dad: he went back to Iran to be at his father’s deathbed.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? And one of the first things that you saw is that you had daily cases being exported from Italy, especially from Italy but also from Iran but especially from Italy, to all the corners of the Earth. So how are we supposed to get information out in the middle of a pandemic?

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

To solve this problem, we are working on new email marketing campaigns, Facebook retargeting, paid ads and other methods. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign. That’s what AOL was.

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