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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. But my chips are in on uBeam and I’m not afraid to put my reputation on the line the same way entrepreneurs must each day.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

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Today’s modern technology means that the growth potential of SMEs is not limited by the size of the communities around them. Serving the community by looking beyond it. New suppliers and customers can be found much further afield, and even internationally, literally with the click of a mouse. times more likely to achieve rapid growth.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. So my goal was to transfer into the deeply technical part of Andersen Consulting so people would see me as a technologist because I love technology. Not in Europe or South Korea. 20 years ago it mattered.

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

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Increasingly easy-to-use technology has enabled smaller retailers to speak and deliver to their niche customer sets across all channels with the same voice as they would in a shop in Hong Kong. Yet remarkably, more and more fashion retailers are starting to embrace being ‘small’ as a strategy for success and growth. They’re highly personal.