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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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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. I listened in on a board call with an enterprise software company this week, and when the CEO said, “Our VP of sales assured me our pipeline won’t be affected.” China and South Korea are starting their factories up again.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. South Korea continues to impress with their innovative use of technology – grocery shopping on subway – [link]. Useful Wireframing And Prototyping Tools – Roundup – [link]. – [link].

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

If you crave for details about the event, feel free to study up the reports or read detailed reviews, but now it’s not the main issue. Due to such a high-frequency, there is an increasing risk of data losses. Anyway, it’s expected that due to beamforming such troubles can be predicted and avoided in the 5G ecosystem.

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Governance

thebarefootvc

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.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Probably the first ‘’red flag’’ was Apple’s announcement that the company had revised its revenue guidance due to a slowdown at manufacturing sites in China as well as reduced demand by Chinese consumers. Speaking of Korea, I am very surprised by the bad news that COVID-19 has spread there.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. You mentioned Asia, and I’ve lived in South Korea for 5 months. How do you address such cases? Cultural diversity and innovation go hand in hand.