Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Most of you are starting professional service businesses and Internet businesses and you can absolutely do those businesses on your evenings and your weekends. I don’t believe in cold turkey transition. I believe in launching while working, so that you can learn on somebody else’s dime. You’ve got to be the payroll manager.

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