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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

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The “Bonfire Moment”: How to Solve People Problems for Startup Success

Duct Tape Marketing

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Founders are never one-time founders.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. For Salzburg to succeed as an innovation hub, it is essential for local private sector business leaders to make a long-term, active, and visible commitment to be active partners in this process.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

Alongside the likes of Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, EC1 Capital and Passion Capital, TNW spent the evening at Wayra London to bring you our favorites. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Global Fashion Group (3x HBS, 2x Wharton).

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.