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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

The company started out in South Korea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet. But then thinking about Wikipedia, Yelp and other UGC sites I realized that people build a sense of community through knowledge and accomplishments with like-minded people online. I became more aware of it by my friends at Viki.

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Twitter Link Roundup #93 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

South Korea continues to impress with their innovative use of technology – grocery shopping on subway – [link]. Increase Your Productivity through Crowdsourcing – [link]. Has Dropbox set the stage for a privacy revolution? – [link]. I thought the minidisc walkman died long ago – [link].

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

I was at a private meeting with 20 people and the president of South Korea and she was asking us what we thought made the US tech ecosystem so great. She said that Korea really wants to build a “creative economy” and that understanding why the US is so innovative was important to her.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

But just give people a taste, and then what I would challenge the community here to do is, these different things that you’re not an expert on or you’re not good at, go back and read what Mark has written about it. Not in Europe or South Korea. How should we as entrepreneurs and as a community be acting? [00:52:12]

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Governance

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The Ethereum community is grappling with its own governance roadmap, with an active debate currently underway on how to resolve issues of lost funds due to hacks or vulnerabilities in smart contracts. As the price of bitcoin rose to over $11,000 this morning (from lows near $6000 two weeks ago), governance was a key theme over the past week.