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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

It’s about not just being more efficient, but fundamentally changing how one operates and leads, enabling the team to get significantly more done and overcome the previous limitations imposed by older ways of thinking or doing things. From 2000 to 2004, I held jobs that allowed me to travel the country. I have to get curious.”

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Toney’s investing expertise includes enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, financial technology, marketplaces, e-commerce, gaming and technology-enabled consumers.

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Green Energy Makes Business Sense

OurCrowd

Musk, whose 2004 bet on electric cars looked risky at the time and now seems prophetic. H2Pro is developing production technology to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel. It is not by chance that governments and corporations that grew wealthy from carbon are looking to a fossil-fuel free future. Just ask Elon.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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Joseph Lee, CEO of Kairous Capital, Shares His Cross-Border Investment Philosophy for the Asia Pacific Region

AsiaTechDaily

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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Newsletter: Elon Musk’s genius + Surgical robots

OurCrowd

The patented technology allows the surgeon to control tiny, human-like robotic arms that enables procedures currently considered unfeasible, and reduces scarring. In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. ” Memic’s strong management team is led by Chairman Maurice R.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.