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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

This came to mind a couple of years ago when I had the chance to sit down with the president of South Korea and she asked a small gathering of 19 tech & business leaders for opinions about how to make the Korean economy more “creative.” Read the responses to this story on Medium.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We are the most diverse city in America — perhaps the world — with 200 nationalities, 100 languages and the largest population outside of a home country for 39 nations around the world including Mexico, South Korea, Armenia, the Philippines, Thailand and many others. He truly is a gifted thinker, orator and more importantly doer.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Because Iran, North Korea, drug cartels, tax evaders, and money launderers are using Bitcoin to evade sanctions, bank laws, taxes, and pretty much violate every lawful economic law on the books. They are already starting to do so, in China and South Korea, and the impact of this on Bitcoin value is just beginning.

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5 Tips For A Traveling Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Over the last 24 months, I’ve had to adapt to live in places with limited connectivity like Patagonia and the Sahara Desert to places made for the digital worker like Seoul, South Korea. In 3 months time, you’ll have sent 90 emails & had dozens of productive conversations that will guide you to your goal.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. Here’s where this conversation gets interesting. can no longer deter a war because we can longer guarantee we can win one. What is its Plan B?

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