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Innovation Stacks and Crazy Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist and artist. In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur. .

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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2024 Thiel Foundation Fellows Announced

American Entrepreneurship

The Thiel Foundation continues its commitment to innovation and disruption achieved by bright young minds, outside of academic studies, by announcing its 2024 class of Thiel Fellows. The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011. 20 young bright minds forego academic study to participate in a two-year program.

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How To Take the Guesswork Out of Scaling

Entrepreneurs' Organization

And you can leverage two very powerful forms of innovation, sustaining innovation and efficiency innovation, to scale your business. Sustaining innovation Sustaining innovation grows a business’s share of an existing market. Efficiency innovation Efficiency innovation improves profitability or productivity.

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Regenerative Finance (ReFi)

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. Serial entrepreneur @G0rd0n_ is looking to scale blue ocean and marine biodiversity markets using #web3 and #DeSci.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

With that in mind, I tried to come up with a structure and set of incentives to make it easier for new up and coming faces in the crowd to step up and make a name for themselves by making a positive impact on the innovation community. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development.

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How Business Can Revitalize a Community After Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Ryota Saito is an entrepreneur and member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization in Japan. When Ryota Saito left his home in Tokyo on 11 March 2011, he expected a typical day as a Microsoft employee. From 2011 to 2013, he worked with Microsoft to distribute PCs to hard-hit areas. Contributed by Michael Neidert.