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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – March 7 2025

VC Cafe

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. Taiwan’s TSMC announced $100 billion investment in US chipmaking And finally, RIP Skype. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. Tell us about the No Fear community site that you’ve put together. Secondly, at every single step an entrepreneur should be thinking about how to take the company global. This is Part II of the interview.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Not only do you need to come up with something relevant, but you have the added stress of worrying about the verb effect, if it’s easy-to-spell, globally understandable, catchy, memorable and gives off the right impression. The domain name choice just made sense for the community-focused company, says Badal. “We Believe.in. Believe.in

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – October 25 2024

VC Cafe

TMSC started making chips in Arizona, with yields higher than Taiwan. Global funding also dropped. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community! General Catalyst raised a new $8 billion venture fund, the largest amount by a US VC firm in more than two years. Funding for U.S. million in Q3 year over year.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. It can, however, be easy to overlook the importance of small businesses like the Chatuchak stallholders, not just to their surrounding communities but also to the wider national economy. Serving the community by looking beyond it.

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The Business Climate in China

Venture Chronicles

In fact the GDP of Guangdong alone is greater than the entire country of Taiwan (the word “country&# in reference to Taiwan being subject to definition if you are Chinese!). has lost influence in global matters over the last year and the Obama administration is weak relative to Beijing. companies evolve.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A November 29, 2012.