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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

We’ve also improved productivity through some helpful tips to our employees, and become a more streamlined and efficient small business overall. We’ve seen impressive year-over-year employee growth and opened a second office in the heart of downtown Toronto. I attended Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal this month.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. In addition, I took Rohit through a discussion on a possible OEM strategy that could result in a significant revenue ramp relatively quickly.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

I know everyone in Ottawa is going to be mad at me for calling Shopify a TO startup, but to be fair, there are massive numbers of Shopify employees / former employees in TO.). This is probably just after the series A in my opinion – where you’re doing perhaps $300k-$1m per month in revenue.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

I know everyone in Ottawa is going to be mad at me for calling Shopify a TO startup, but to be fair, there are massive numbers of Shopify employees / former employees in TO.). This is probably just after the series A in my opinion – where you’re doing perhaps $300k-$1m per month in revenue.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

thenextweb.com

The death of Memamp, or ‘Reddit’s first employee’ The people that you meet on a program such as Y Combinator can be as important, if not more so, than the program itself. I was reddit’s first employee about 2 months later,” Chris tells me. Apples China App Store Brings in 18% of Downloads, 3% of Revenue.