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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary. Zarik holds a B.S.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could. The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money.

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Why many entrepreneurs come across as jerks

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Management. In the course of conducting research of entrepreneurs across the globe, my co-authors and I found that most exceptional leaders tend to balance their convictions with a healthy dose of humility. Tony Tjan is CEO of Cue Ball Capital and is co-author of Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck (Harvard Business Review Press).

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. They have focused much of their initial work on Twitter data.

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The stoic resilience of Israel’s Tech Ecosystem – Welcome to the Middle East

VC Cafe

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Our new, “new normal “ The ceasefire with Hamas will only buy us temporary calm until Iran has re-loaded Hamas for another round. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire.

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