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“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again

Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

If you could magically give one piece of advice to every founder seeking venture capital what would it be? Speaking to international founders – which is really my focus – the number one piece of advice I would give is to spend time in the Bay Area. CN: Thanks so much – that means a lot coming from you.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Leading with Authenticity: How to Become and Remain an Authentic Brand

StartupNation

JUNE 22, 2021

A brand should be rooted in a company’s heritage and culture, connected to a set of core values that are the company’s very reason for being. A reality-grounded CEO manages, protects and leads the brand by managing, protecting and leading the culture and values behind it. You will need the help and advice of others.

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What do people want in a co-founder? YC has some answers

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The pandemic and a new work-from-home culture have fundamentally changed how founders think about location when choosing a co-founder. An article by Harvard Business Review in 2011 says, “a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop.”.

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Wood Egg (my new company)

Derek Sivers

JUNE 7, 2013

Starting five years ago, I got deeply curious about the differences between countries and cultures, fascinated with understanding the different perspectives. I like Seth Godin’s advice about naming. I set up a Singapore corporation for it from my Yogyakarta hotel room that night in August 2011, and began the next day.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. Yet it tempts us all.

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Eliminating gender-based violence in Peru one ‘sonrisa’ at a time

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

My two friends and I started Tejiendo Sonrisas, a Peruvian nonprofit organization, on March 1, 2011. Any pieces of advice you would give to other social entrepreneurs in the YLAI Network? YLAI provides a lot of useful help ranging from training to living experiences, cultural and work exchange, so take advantage of it.

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The Doom Loop

Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) Bitcoin therefore must move, and movement between parties is the antithesis of HODL culture.

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Dissecting the past to predict the future: Tracy Young on building TigerEye

Y Combinator

JUNE 12, 2024

The hard parts of joining a big company following an acquisition, her advice for new founders going through YC, and more! To get inserted into a 40+ year old public company… there’s a cultural difference. We worked together [on PlanGrid] starting in 2011; we got married in 2013. It really sucked for me.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

He goes on to say, “We live in a highly individualistic culture. 2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. Do they have a strong sense of culture? When we’re shopping for a vacation we’re primarily thinking about Where. The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights. ” So true.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Cause I remember when we signed the program manager agreement with Discover, this was early 2011, and then we closed our Series A on June 2nd of 2011. And that, I believe, is still in the culture today. You’re going to get lots of different advice. Jason: It took us about 15 months. We had raised, I believe, 5.

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Excalibur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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The 100 Year Old Company. How Liza Borches Leads for the Future.

Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHsutle.com, recently interviewed Borches to tap into her extensive advice and expertise as a leader in her industry. Borches joined the company in 2003 and has been leading CMA since 2011. This interview is focused around culture fit questions.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. Writer’s note: Whurley has been a supporter of Silicon Hills News, the tech news site I founded in 2011.

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A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. but their religious and cultural values stem from the Islamic tradition. In Japanese, foreigners are called “gaijin”.

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