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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. Let’s talk about globalization – recently in Singapore there were some push-back against globalization with recent reports on big companies here hiring top talent from overseas instead of using and local talent.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger. Open Sesame! (A

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Lessons from my Dad

Rob Go

He also hired and kept the same assistant for the past 30 years, and she literally has never had another job her entire career. One of my Dad’s closest friends through the years was a man in Taiwan that he met when he travelled there for an international basketball meet when he was in middle school.