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7 Ways Of Using An Immigrant Culture In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. Look at the world as today’s global market. But it does mean that every move be made with a global consideration.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Some encouraging data on migration

The Equity Kicker

This is the central conclusion of the Scale Up Report and we see it every day in our own operations and at our partners. Moreover, the percentage of people who are migrants has held steady since 1960 at around 3% of the global population – now about 232m people. Spain and Greece, by contrast, have seen increases in emigration.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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Tough Love

Growthink Blog

Because their partners in government – and whatever one’s political persuasion government is and will remain a key partner that must work well if business is to thrive (see Greece, Argentina, et al.) – have to and are working better. The process is slow. It is painful. It is cynical-inducing.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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