Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). By commission?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2023

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). By commission?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). By commission?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. How can governments not track hooligans, terrorists or criminals who give off public information.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and want to start your own business, use these 5 startup tips from the experts to get your idea off the ground. Today, these companies, and hundreds like them, have graduated from aspiring startups to behemoth conglomerates. She helms Eventbox, an online platform for events based in Iran.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2024

This has convinced many of them to work on national security problems in defense startups. Travel History (have you lived or gone to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, etc.) However, many of those companies and government agencies require you to work on projects with sensitive information the government wants to protect.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Startup Battlefield. Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Startup Bright has already built a popular job board. Flame Malware ‘Created By US And Israel To Fight Iran’ Reports Claim. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2018

In 1294 Gaykhatu (literally, “Awesome” in Mongolian) was the leader of one Hoard of Mongols ruling over what is now Iran, Iraq and Southwest Asia. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

While Iran & Russia are moving to deny gay people’s existents or diminish their rights we live in a country that accepts them as the loving parents and people that they are. Startup Advice' One of their mommy’s best friends is a gay man with three children who have Spina Bifida – two in wheelchairs. Thank you, Om.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Consider the case of Tradesy founder Tracy DiNunzio who could only launch her startup by giving up her bedroom for a year and earning $28,000 that allowed her to not have a full time job that year. You can watch the 20-minute video of my talk if you want here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. TweetMyJobs is a startup that interests me because it uses an open social interest graph to help job seekers and companies find each other. (no, Iran Twitter Image courtesy of political cartoonist John Cole for the Scranton Times. Social Media helps change that. See you then.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 7, 2014

As most of you know by now, I wrote a book that was published last fall called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’m excited to announce that, starting on January 20th, the book has now been turned into Kauffman Fellows Academy (KFA) online course called Startup CEO. Australia and, of course, Silicon valley.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Often known as Startup Camps. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. The 80’s and 90’s were the great periods of so called ‘ think tanks’. They are now changing into ‘Do Tanks’. Weekend workshops were products and services are conceived, prototyped and shipped by Monday morning. With a social bent.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

See this LA Times article from last year about a likely scammer closer to startups, and an ongoing saga of events from the victim’s perspective. So what can you do, and what are the “red flags” to look for as you do your due diligence before pooling your money with other investors, or accepting money for your startup from investors?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. That line of reasoning would render the entire startup tech market useless.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In Lebanon, Hi **ah continues to shoot rockets aimed at civilians in Israel and Iran has once more threatened a ‘devastating response’ before the US elections. Will the Israeli startup ecosystem overcome them? Israeli startups deliver #NOMATTERWHAT In the wider tech and AI ecosystem it’s been another momentous week.

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VC Cafe

JULY 18, 2024

The war against Hamas (and attacks from Iran’s proxies in the north and the south of the country) put this engine of the economy at risk. Highlights from the H1 2024 report According to the report there are 7,158 active startups and 217 active investors in Israel’s innovative tech scene. billion across 322 rounds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces various economic sanctions programs; you may be familiar with the restrictions and embargoes that are placed on countries such as North Korea or Iran which are designed to put foreign policy pressure on those and other governments.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi joins a16z General Partner Jennifer Li to share his story of growing up in Iran, helping build influential text-to-image models at Google, and ultimately cofounding and running Ideogram.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It was 1979 when the Shah was exiled from Iran by those loyal to the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini, ending the reign of the the last Persian monarch. She fled the university and on that day, without knowing, said goodbye to Aryamehr Institute of Technology and the country she had loved for 22 years, Iran. And here she was, almost done.

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Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish. Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. Why are Swedish startups blowing up so hard? One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of my cofounders.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

This is likely the least hungover you’ll be during your time in Austin, so take advantage of it with a 9:30am panel, Innovation Overseas: The European Startup Environment. Four excellent sessions at 11am: - 2009 Iran Election will hopefully settle an ongoing argument I’m having about social media’s true impact on real-world events.

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Kodorra

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

For example, if you come from Iran, unfortunately, is not going to be easy at all. Before you do anything as long as your nationality is on this list as I told you à friend of mine is from Iran and couldn’t open an account, I know it sucks. Use the N26 Perk (For Station F residence only). The website is n26.com/en-fr.

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Kodorra

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

For example, if you come from Iran, unfortunately, is not going to be easy at all. Before you do anything as long as your nationality is on this list as I told you à friend of mine is from Iran and couldn’t open an account, I know it sucks. Use the N26 Perk (For Station F Residence Only). The website is n26.com/en-fr.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Today’s Startups grow faster and with less investment needed than ever before. The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Here’s why: 1. Facebook that of Google. Twitter that of Facebook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How Shyp Sunk: The Rise And Fall Of An On-Demand Startup – [link] pic.twitter.com/GQQduPHOq6. Shyp's model never was.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. That still feels like a huge and worthwhile objective to me. Thanks to Robert Stolk, Pointer Brand Protection ! #9- The biggest one?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

No matter on which side of this month’s debate over the Iran nuclear agreement you happen to fall on, we all agree that talking beats destroying and even the most ardent foes of President Obama’s deal with the Iranian government will surely agree that the attempt at an agreement is preferable to a military option.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We’ve only met once but I love tracking what he’s into politically as well as his startup views. If I want to know about any topic I can follow experts who like to Tweet & link to that topic and I expand my horizons. It’s why I like following people like Shervin Pishevar , for example.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. That approach doesn’t work anymore. Innovation then becomes a continuous cycle rather than a bottleneck.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

startups and small businesses. Korea, Iran, et al.), startups and small businesses. Each year, Growthink reviews hundreds of startup and emerging company opportunities and selects those with the best management teams, market opportunities, and financial prospects. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

In July 2024, Israeli startups raised $703 million in 28 deals, more than double the amount raised in July 2023 (before the war). In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B It’s a testament to the fact that Israeli tech delivers #NOMATTERWHAT. in Q2 2024 alone, which is 16.5% of global venture capital volume.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran. Our polarized environment encourages — and amplifies — partisan conflicts, and this inhibits social progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Social networks are like Iran. We talked about this concept and also: online video, lawsuits with big media companies, the value or not of circles in Google Plus, the economic reasons behind the NetFlix decision, social TV startup Chill and much, much more. It’s scary. ” It hit me. He’s right. PSEUDONYMITY.

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