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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. The post Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Catching a Second Wind

OurCrowd

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow. Technology is the key to the transition to sustainability.

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Tips for the Kiddie Table: What to do when you didn't make that list or get that invite

This is going to be BIG.

In the past, my first instinct would have very well been to pour all of my frustration into a biting blog post that attacks the very nature of list creation, and the b t nature of velvet ropes. Marketing is a key component of any product strategy, especially when that product is yourself. Where did I make that wrong turn?

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. Learning From USV and Foundry. Global and Local.

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Affirm and Klarna ramp up competing efforts to attract US consumers

TechCrunch

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers. And elsewhere.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I published this on my own startups blog. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos.