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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

If you read only one previous post, read this one (or this one.) ————- The Birth of Entrepreneurship in The Hot Cold War Silicon Valley entrepreneurship was born in the middle of a secret war with the Soviet Union. military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. 34,000 U.S. soldiers died in battle.

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A Tale of Two Bubbles: Why Cryptocurrency Isn’t the Next Dot-Com

ReadWriteStart

Early internet technology was groundbreaking, but decentralized currency is truly revolutionary. Recent fluctuations in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were the direct result of new regulations announced by the South Korean government , and other regulatory agencies across the world are guaranteed to make similar moves.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. You were hanging out in Silicon Valley, I'm sure many people must have told you, "You’ve got to monetize this. It's well documented.