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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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You worry about all of your staff, you worry about their reputations, you worry about your own reputation, you worry about the people who gave you money, you worry about the customers who entrusted you. ” Well, I really wanted to be a general partner but there weren’t a lot of general partner openings.

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Growing Smaller: How Smaller Retailers Are Thinking Beyond Fashion Weeks For #fashion To Compete

YoungUpstarts

Finally, one cannot ‘grow small’ without a reliable network of business partners, whether it’s like-minded companies to cross-sell services and expand the product offering, or other companies to provide operational support in areas where expertise is lacking. [6]. They find the right support.