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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

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It can, however, be easy to overlook the importance of small businesses like the Chatuchak stallholders, not just to their surrounding communities but also to the wider national economy. Serving the community by looking beyond it. Serving the community by looking beyond it. times more likely to achieve rapid growth.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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You worry about all of your staff, you worry about their reputations, you worry about your own reputation, you worry about the people who gave you money, you worry about the customers who entrusted you. Not in Europe or South Korea. How should we as entrepreneurs and as a community be acting? [00:52:12]

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Growing Smaller: How Smaller Retailers Are Thinking Beyond Fashion Weeks For #fashion To Compete

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They look for ways to cultivate and engage a community. Small retailers are starting to use this insight to build loyal online communities, which do the selling for them. That means engaging and delighting shoppers on mobiles, social media and online channels. .