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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

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According to Rolf Illenberger, co-founder of VRdirect, a virtual reality platform in Munich, none of the big European tech companies are currently relevant to the future of the Metaverse. Talent retention is one of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s Metaverse industry.

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[Singapore] Local ICT Industry Cite Manpower Cost As Key Challenge

YoungUpstarts

With the double constraints in place (higher salary and lower DRC) for foreign manpower and coupled with difficulty in finding local people to fill the jobs, due to incompetency of job knowledge and skills, business profitability was said to have taken a toll.

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9 Ways To Make Sure Your Small Business Is Better Off Four Years From Now

YoungUpstarts

Whoever heads up our government will have only a minimal impact on the small businesses that form the backbone of our nation. What’s more, we did it all while four presidents, each with very different governing styles, held the highest office in the land. Business owners need to remember something crucial: Governments cannot create.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 12 – It was Just Time.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Any suggestions?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.