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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. communication networks, then identify how China might exploit these weaknesses differently during the political coercion of Taiwan in the near-term vs open conflict in the long-term.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with.

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[Interview] Meghan Fitzgerald, Author Of “Ascending Davos”

YoungUpstarts

It was in the mountains, in fact — in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum — that Meghan Fitzgerald realized she had been trading her health for her career. When I became a managing partner, aside from directing our strategy on where to invest, I also helped recruit board positions and management teams.

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Facebook’s Libra Launch

thebarefootvc

While more details will be revealed on June 18th, the listed members are expected to be operating “nodes’ on the network and will earn fees in return for validating transactions. A big question yet to be answered is who in the network will see what data, and how that data will ultimately be used.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?—?Edelman’s Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world.

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It’s Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission

Both Sides of the Table

I heard word that a new project was starting in Tokyo to work for the board of directors of a very large and well known Japanese electronics company to work on their Internet strategy looking at media, devices and networks. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner.

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Most Overused Buzzword On LinkedIn Profiles? Creative.

YoungUpstarts

At least, that’s the consensus from professional network LinkedIn, who found that the description topped the list of the most overused words and phrases in its member profiles for 2012. Switzerland: Analytical. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. Malaysia: Motivated.