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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!

Occam's Razor

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. Global maxima view of success: Microsoft is losing. [

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

These groups include Astia Angels, a global network of angel investors focusing on women-led ventures, and the Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, which focuses on minority entrepreneurs. Organizations such as CODE2040 are also playing a role in increasing minority representation in the technology industry.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com. Discuss.

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago. In some cases costs today are 1/10 that of even 5 years ago.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. I feel very lucky.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

You have investors from the impact space, but also some straight from the technology industry. Eric Ries : What was it like for each of you personally, watching the pandemic kind of roll out and become this global phenomenon and having to deal with the loss of revenue, the need for urgent action? What were those first days like?