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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. One of the biggest mistakes I made was flushing about $10,000 down the toilet on legal fees for a piece of paper that eventually didn’t suffice when two of our co-founders left the building.

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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

The founders of Benkheim&Co , an online brand which seeks to change the traditional luxury watch concept, explains how motivated entrepreneurs benefit from globalisation, efficient fulfilment services and new technologies. All these are factors that many founders underestimate, especially in terms of time.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. Now Netflix offers video streaming in 41 countries around the world.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. Even the Netherlands is catching up, with FailCon NL taking place this week on March 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam. An entrepreneur who has been through the mill before is in fact more likely to succeed.

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YouTube Co-Founder, Valencia Mayor on Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow

The Startup Magazine

Speakers at the conference will include Youtube Co-Founder Steve Chen, Mayor of Valencia María José Català, Facebook Live Creator Randi Zuckerberg, and Prince of the Netherlands Constantijn van Oranje, among others. This week the organization, in the run-up to its conference on October 23-24, shared its agenda.

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