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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It would be foolish for any investor to write off consumer investing as a category because of the massive opportunity consumer internet companies offer.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.