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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

This came to mind a couple of years ago when I had the chance to sit down with the president of South Korea and she asked a small gathering of 19 tech & business leaders for opinions about how to make the Korean economy more “creative.” Could leaders of society try to change the culture in ways that encourage acceptance of failure?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. I would go to Mars because I’m curious to see how society develops. Why or why not?

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Watching him develop over the past 4.5 Kevin not only built relationships with many of the younger, more emerging professionals in all of the US funds but he has also developed a very active investor relationships with Asian funds in particular in Japan, South Korea and China and in Northern Europe.

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. Here’s where this conversation gets interesting.

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How to Lose Your Business Weight Through Lean Thinking

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Strategy 2: Develop a malleable framework that accepts and appreciates the value of growth and learning amid failure. How better to improve than conversing with the people who will use the product? Strategy 3: Enhance and prosper through unguarded conversation. She currently resides and works in South Korea.

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8 Tips On Intercultural Communication And International Etiquette To Create Successful Business Relationships In Asia

YoungUpstarts

For years I’ve studied the cultures in 10 Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Conversely, people from collectivist cultures, common to Asia, prefer group representation in meetings and negotiations. In the U.S.,

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