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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Also: booze. Founder, Tout.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The revolution is about access and the democratization of the factors of production. Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world).

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? But beyond its products, Coinbase is an interesting company in itself. But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally.

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