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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? Like the U.S.

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The United Nations: a Network of Networks

Reid Hoffman

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. The short answer is networks and entrepreneurship. Networks enable communication, collaboration, and coordination that in turn enable innovation. So, let’s start with networks. My name is Reid Hoffman.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? Like the U.S.

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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

Ruben relocated to Austin from Chile in early 2020, prior to the start of COVID, after receiving the opportunity to join the International Accelerator with Beereaders. Each of these startups receive investment of up to $100,000 and access to gener8tor’s global network of mentors and investors to take their business to the next level.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. It’s all fueled by an incredible global network of people on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals and communities through entrepreneurship.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. equity debate.

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People Recommendation vs. Content Recommendation

This is going to be BIG.

Tell me who 5%-10% of my network follows that I don’t—so I don’t get recommendations to follow Fred Wilson or Robert Scoble, but I do get the entrepreneur in my network that I’m probably bound to run into and say, “How have we not met yet? Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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