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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. In 2008, she established Confirm BioSciences, a global leader in quality diagnostic health & wellness testing solutions. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Book: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Feld Thoughts

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). .” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Music distribution—the largest music distributor in the world is a technology company, Apple; its largest potential threat, Spotify, is a software company. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.