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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

in investments in 2015, $15.2B FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015. Others narrow down its meaning to just startups that aim to disrupt incumbent financial systems. The industry reached $15.5B

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Cold War in Space: Top Secret Reconnaissance Satellites Revealed ” National Museum of the United States Air Force, June 02, 2015. China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. For anyone wishing to sell globally for the first time, Viswanathan recommends putting strong focus on customer care to encourage repeat purchases and building trust early on through customer reviews and media.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

Both Sides of the Table

He oversaw the launch of iconic properties including Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob & Rugrats — all multi-billion-dollar global powerhouses. Latinos are now 60 million strong in the US and around 450 million globally (more than English speaking people at 335 million). 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015, the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) Beth Comstock is out. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago.

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Seduced By Growth, But Terminal Scale Still Matters

Agile VC

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.