Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. In Greece, 10% of the populace works for the government at higher than average wages.   They paid $100,000 for it.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, win our category of Entertainment Tech (yes, we are very competitive), then establish contacts with clients in the media industry with broadcasters, OTT platforms and cable operators. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. Sceenic is based in London. In the U.K.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans. Others are simply thieves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Complementary lines of thinking, such as that of user experience professionals, design thinking practitioners and the functional disciplines of sales, marketing, operations and even accounting, come together to share practices that lift us all. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

Amazon ’s magic is that it’s a behemoth of a company that still operates like a founder-driven start-up in several key areas. This means they break up a big project into smaller projects, where the smaller project teams can stay nimble and be less subject to complex governance. We’ve all seen these things happen to good start-ups.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

At Flavours Holidays], we have been specializing in cooking, Pilates, painting, photography, and language holidays in Italy since 1998,” she says. Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”. Why was an LLC the best choice? “We

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Up and Running

MARCH 19, 2018

They aim to create a change by making particular supplier choices and structuring business operations to help tackle the root of the problems of unsafe or environmentally dangerous practices. Socially responsible companies also often reinvest profits into the business or use them to actualize their mission statements.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

How about Venezuela funds from 1998? It's no longer just a political issue when you're operating in an environment where the government is threatening the otherwise very stable national platform by which you've built your business on. What investor wants to take that extra layer of government risk?

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