The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

SparkLabs , an accelerator program in South Korea that is bringing a Silicon Valley-like approach to the Asian country’s startup ecosystem, showcased its second batch of startups to investors at Demo Day today. Another food-related startup. Asia Entrepreneur News Roundups South Korea startups'

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why? In the USA, the risk is expected and accepted as part of the deal of working with startups. Don’t risk it!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

These posts cover two distinct periods – the first, the rise of “ Microwave Valley ” chronicles the decade of 1946-1956 as Stanford University became the hub of military/industry contracting in the Bay Area. . ————– These posts will make a lot more sense if you look at the earlier Secret History posts.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Cryptocurrency startups, much like the dot-coms, are experiencing an influx of capital that’s boosting the valuations of solid, innovative companies along with their relatively worthless counterparts — Dogecoin comes to mind as a cautionary tale. The similarities are fairly obvious.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I wanted to touch on ‘golazo’ as it’s my fault we use this strange verbiage, but also a critical element we look for in all the startups we invest in. These are the same qualities we’re looking for in terms of ambition and potential scale of the startups we invest in.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Sooinn had over a decade of experience working in the game industry in South Korea. They didn’t start Locomotive Labs because they wanted to start a company or because it’s cool to do a startup. Yet she doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley stereotype of an entrepreneur.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I recently wrote a post noting that while the growth cycle of startups has clearly accelerated in the last 5 years, the number of truly monster new businesses (a company ultimately worth $75-100B) remains about the same … it’s a once in a decade sort of thing. February 2, 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

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. My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread.

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