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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs must be creative enough to innovate, disciplined enough to stay focused, resourceful enough to do more with less, and bold enough to take calculated risks. Creativity & Innovation Thinking outside the box to develop unique products, services, or business models. Invest in self-education and upskilling.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy. I’m long.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home&#. Subsidize their education and then send them home. They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress.

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo? It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5

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20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. Combining her high-end culinary skills with creative ingredients from the cereal aisle, Tosi created sweet culinary hits like Cereal Milk and Crack Pie. Christina Tosi / Milk Bar. Payal Kadakia / Classpass.

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Impact Hub Bergen: Where History Meets Innovation

Impact Hub

Impact Hub Bergen was an early starter amongst social innovation spaces and joined the global Impact Hub network in 2008. Silje had a vision for a space that would invite interactions between unlikely allies in the name of creativity and innovation.