TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
But if an entrepreneur wants to sell their company, that’s OK too. For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Some key concepts will be turned into actionable items for entrepreneurs. Let’s start with the investment thesis.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 10, 2023
Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners. This is happening, in part, due to the rapid technological change that comes with disruptors backed by venture capital.
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This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 22, 2020
European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 27, 2010
If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. If you don’t build a network of entrepreneurs around you—how are you ever going to figure out how to better educate them?
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 25, 2013
Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Wider issues seem more cultural; startups not thinking big enough, investors lacking the necessary appetite for risk, and even — among wider society — some latent suspicion of entrepreneurs. And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do.
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