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[Interview] Kris Oestergaard, Co-Founder And Chief Learning And Innovation Officer At SingularityU Nordic, Copenhagen, Denmark

YoungUpstarts

I decided that I needed to know more and so attended a program at Singularity University, which Ray co-founded. Top management point to middle management and say they don’t want to innovate; middle management point to the employees; and employees point back at middle management.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? Currently available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA.

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

David Teten

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout.

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6 Forward-thinking Businesses That Are Making the World a Better Place

Up and Running

Novo Nordisk Headquarters in Denmark. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk is ranked 7th on the Global 100 most sustainable businesses list, which is compiled by the organization Corporate Knights Capital and unveiled at the World Economic Forum each January. Founder Salman Khan, image via Khan Academy.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees. Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.