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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). You need the whole package. He wanted to raise angel money.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

No, the conversation was about to get more interesting. Since the first part of the lecture was about Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder flew in from Switzerland to teach slides 20-76. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion

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Davos report - a conversation with Alan Alper of Cognizant

deal architect

Cognizant is a regular at the annual WEF event in Davos, Switzerland. I requested Alan Alper, VP Corporate Marketing, keep good notes on everything he observed during this year's event. Here's an excellent ground level report - you can feel.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. It’s incredibly slow, because of all the stakeholders.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. No one expects you to sound local.I

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. No one expects you to sound local.I

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Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis

Occam's Razor

On a serious note… offering your opinion on something, unsupported by any data except "I think", is probably a really poor way to start a conversation with anyone in the Analytics field. I can guess the Macro Conversion on site in two seconds. Surprise me [/ your boss / your audience / children / god].

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