Venture Chronicles

JULY 29, 2015

How do we square the universal outrage expressed about the killing of a lion with the antipathy to 200,000 people killed in Syria , including women and children gassed to death by the Assad regime? Social Media Uncategorized atrocities Cecil hashtags internet outrage Palmer SyriaThe story of the Dr. “Lion Slayer” Palmer is all over the internet and people are outraged, for good reason. His dental practice is in limbo and he is in hiding after receiving death threats.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Born in Syria, Dr. Hanna began his surgical residency at the Aleppo University Medical Center and continued his studies in the United States with the intent to return to Syria to practice surgery.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2020

Now, Cong Son Ta helps people in need from Africa, Syria, Nepal, and more. There is nothing quite like building a startup company from the ground up. America is a country that has been built by small businesses, all of which started off as a startup company at some point.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, the United States has had sanctions against Syria since 1986 due to its poor human rights record and state-sponsored terrorism. When someone starts a business, and it becomes highly successful, that person’s thoughts often turn to expansion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

But an equally obvious case is BitCoin where people who live in Iran, Syria or Libya may rather put their money into non-governmental units (even knowing the risks) than to trust their local governmental leaders to protect their assets from inflation or seizure. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

And the Virtual Reality documentary, Project Syria , is showing VR’s powerful ability to affect us emotionally by letting us walk in someone else’s shoes. There’s a lot of discussion these days about what the next breakout computing platform will be: wearables, the Internet of Things, Bitcoin, VR/AR, or something else that we haven’t heard about yet? I think VR/AR is a strong candidate, since it feels like a logical extension of our current computing platforms.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

While in some parts of the Middle East there is still a culture of keeping up with the Joneses, the truth is there’s no stereotypical MENA country, and while Arab culture and Islam are still dominant forces, the region is changing, sometimes dramatically as evidenced by the recent Arab Spring and the consequent civil war in Syria which sadly has led to the mass exodus of millions of refugees into neighbouring countries such as Lebanon.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

Jusoor runs an entrepreneurship program in Syria. What they had to say: Due to conflict in this region, there aren’t a lot of people reaching out to those in the country with entrepreneurial ambitions, who are looking to boost Syria’s economic future. “The statistics say there are almost 20 million expatriate Syrians around the world, almost similar to the number of people inside Syria. Who doesn’t want this guy for a lunch date?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

We understand that you support several worthy causes, including groups that sponsor families immigrating to Canada from war-torn countries like Syria. Successful entrepreneurs become that way by being on the leading edge of trends involving consumer behaviors and preferences and ways to capitalize on them. Such has been the case for Winnipeg’s Kris Thorkelson. A licensed pharmacist since 1991, it wasn’t enough for Thorkelson to merely fill customers’ prescriptions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

3 Syria. National Basketball Association (NBA) rising superstar Jeremy Lin emerged as the top name Singaporeans googled this year, beating out even its founding father Lee Kuan Yew (the infamous Amy Cheong of this saga also made the list), while the Olympics 2012 came out as the top trending search. In its newly released Zeitgeist , Google revealed the top search trends this year in Singapore after analyzing over one trillion search queries it received this year.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

It won’t be surprise anyone then, we can all agree, of the three countries to top the list – China, Iran and Syria. Some countries hate the Internet. Actually, it may be more accurate to say that some countries are fearful of the power of the Internet to harness people power that may lead to the overthrow in the “natural” order of things.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Or in the Project Syria experience, viewers can feel what it’s like to live in a Syrian refugee camp and sit alongside grieving families as they hear deafening gunfire and rockets overhead. Just like Project Syria , there are already dozens of VR experiences that aim to increase awareness of the plight of those who are less fortunate. 5 Visual Storytelling Trends That are Shaping The Future of Communication written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

With the red-hot temperature around the crisis in Syria reduced to a mere boil, and the government in North Korea backing away from the brink I gave some thought this week to what entrepreneurs could learn from global leaders and diplomats in general. As messy as the recent situation in Syria has been, it can be argued that it was massive pressure brought to bear by the threat of attack that ed to a breaking of the diplomatic logjam surrounding the conflict.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The charge for registering a change of property ownership in Syria amounts to more than a quarter of the building’s entire value. T he World Bank published the Doing Business 2011 report earlier this week, measuring how easy and pricey it is to complete the various bureaucratic procedures and red tape involved in setting up, running and shutting down a firm. Israel went up one spot from last year in the latest report, ranking 29 among the 183 countries included in the study.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We have stakeholders two or three times a day in the White House situation room, grappling with everything from the crisis in Syria to Ebola to the refugee crisis around the world,” he said. We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We have stakeholders two or three times a day in the White House situation room, grappling with everything from the crisis in Syria to Ebola to the refugee crisis around the world,” he said. We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2014

He’s decided that the North Korea hack on Sony Pictures was not an act of war but is now trying to decide if it’s terrorism so he can put North Korea on the terrorism sponsors list to join Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. I’m gearing up for a long series of posts about the various books I read on my month off on Bora Bora.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Putin’s Russia is intent on undermining the US and West in any way it can – aggression in the Crimea and Ukraine and destabilizing activities in Syria ; Venezuela and beyond. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future. I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

ISIS Destroys One Of Syria’s Most Important Ancient Landmarks crowdspring.co/1K57Trv. A bicycle-riding robot? What other wonders could the world yet hold? Why if we can get a small machine to balance and adjust its center of gravity like this little fella, how long can it be until those flying cars finally go on the market? Well, I’m not holding my breath, but it does give me some hope that technology may save us after all. Or at least give us some modest entertainment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

She had no idea that in the last 2 years I had raised $16 million for refugees and we had personally moved 4,000 refugees out of Iraq and Syria — mainly to Australia because the United States wouldn’t take them.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Putin’s Russia is intent on undermining the US and West in any way it can – aggression in the Crimea and Ukraine and destabilizing activities in Syria ; Venezuela and beyond. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2018

Global tensions over nuclear arms, crisis in Myanmar, bloody civil wars in Syria and Yemen. Let’s start with an awesome dog taking himself sledding. Now, let’s move on to Bill Gates opening essay in this week’s Time Magazine (he’s their first ever guest editor) titled Some good news, for once. It’s short and powerful. He starts out with context. “Reading the news today does not exactly leave you feeling optimistic. Hurricanes in the Americas.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 28, 2011

” He adds: “storms of another sort are still overcoming Syria and Libya, both of which might as well not exist on supposed news networks today. On June 17, 1994, the whole country was interrupted by broadcast news—us New Yorkers were watching Patrick Ewing and the Knicks in the NBA Finals. It was the beginning of the biggest media spectacle we had ever seen.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. Today, Syria shut down the Internet nationwide Sand are limiting the functionality of mobile services and land lines in some cities as well. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. Video. PandoDigest. About. Search. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? By Sarah Lacy. On November 28, 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

I mean you hope you don't have to deal with it, but I mean if you live in Syria. Mark Cuban is my guest on Out of the Crisis #2 (transcript below). You may know him as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks or an investor on Shark Tank. In his 20s, he started a systems integrator called MicroSolutions which was eventually sold to Compuserve. After that, he started AudioNet, one of the first audio streaming companies, which was sold to Yahoo.

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Fred Destin

OCTOBER 16, 2012

If you're trying to predict an uprising in Syria, newspaper scanning isn't going to help you. I am at the Recorded Future 's first user conference down in Washington today, watching Christopher Ahlberg and guests takes us through the next generation in business intelligence. Team Atlas has a "Big Focus on Big Data" and this is one of those days where I'm comforted that we're on to some strong opportunities in this field.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Michael Port: Just like if you said, “Listen, Michael, I’m going to … I need some help fighting in Syria right now. Transcript of How to Give a Great Business Presentation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hey, this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by rev.com.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 7, 2017

to radical, miserably unhappy short-sighted people, countries & groups (ISIS, Turkey, Syria, Russia), to witnessing some of the most generous acts of kindness towards refugees and others humanity has ever seen. Tibetan monks creating a intricate mandala that they will soon wipe away and throw into a nearby river. No matter your worldview, I think we can all agree that 2016 was a defining and likely transitional year in the United States of America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Syria. Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. I guess I didn’t see it quite that way. My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech. So as societal movements had impacts on startups affecting LGBTQ issues, for example, I was public about my support.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria – [link]. Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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