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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures. Not so DataSift. We knew we had a winner. ” Steve.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon.

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Why many entrepreneurs come across as jerks

management.fortune.cnn.com

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. Most founders hit a wall or at least speed bump when they are looking to grow their company without making some tradeoffs in culture or vision.

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

Hearpreneur

8- Stop counterfeiting and IP infringement globally. I honestly believe that through a combination of technology and expert people we can help put a stop to counterfeiting and IP infringement globally. Thanks to Edgar Radjabli, Loan Doctor ! #8- Photo Credit: Robert Stolk. We can protect businesses and consumers from harm.