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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Slopestyle

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The opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi is a great opportunity to think about competition, performance, and creativity. Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. Same with Slopestyle. Audaciousness.

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Tesla Is Not A Car Company

Austin Startup

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that technology to its competitors ! In 2014, Tesla promised that it wouldn’t sue anyone who violated its patents. This is all in the interest of driving scale.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B in SaaS companies globally.

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