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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’ve read hundreds of books over my entrepreneurial career, a large number of them biographies and autobiographies on famous entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Ray Croc, Howard Schultz and many others. Reading all these books had a powerful cumulative effect that helped reprogram me into an unreasonable thinker. Promoting Disruption.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

As the book world’s leading platform for exclusive access to sneak peeks, advance previews, and special giveaways, we live our mission every day and give readers a chance to See It First. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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What Does Social Entrepreneurship Look Like?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We promote individualized learning by combining teacher- led and computer-based instruction, and emphasizing face-to-face and online learning, while traditional schools focus largely on book learning.

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Starting a SPARK

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We promote individualized learning by combining teacher-led and computer-based instruction, and emphasizing face-to-face and online learning, while traditional schools focus largely on book learning.

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A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee

Entrepreneur's Handbook

“I opened this antiquated technology called a book, and I read that your kingdom was engaged in an effort called The Quantitative Tightening. And in this book, the author suggested that you pledged to stop printing the Dollar so that the inflation inside your kingdom would subside.” Sir Powell let out a loud guffaw.

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The idea factory

Tomasz Tunguz

In his book and the interview, Gertner highlighted points about the Bell Labs that relate to Clay Christensen’s recent New York Times editorial, the Capitalist’s Dilemma. The advances pioneered by Bell have created 100 years of massive economic growth: the Internet, digital communication, semiconductors for the US.

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America Needs More Techno-Optimism

Andreessen Horowitz

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. I mean, so, you know, the overall answer is productivity growth in the economy, you know, is a great starting point. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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