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William Shakespeare
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David C
Childhood friends pivot to form billion dollar company
Childhood friends Dylan Smith and Aaron Levie worked around the clock to make their company Box live after only two months - which, through a series of pivots, has become a billion dollar company. In 2005, this duo decided to tackle the problem of file sharing amongst colleagues. By listening to their customers and maintaining a fluid approach, they have honed their product and its design to become a leader in the market.
A good friend of mine, Ryan Allis, the founder of iContact and now a founder of Connect (while he is at HBS) and fellow UN Global Entrepreneurs Council member, recently shared a startling stat with me. There are only 23 founders who are currently Fortune 500 CEOs.
It’s an amazing…
What makes us successful: Futurist Gerd Leonhard at TEDxCollegeBeauSoleil (by TEDxYouth)
One of my best to-date, imho:)))
TV feels fragile to me.
How mobile grows so fast and TV seems constant doesn’t make sense to me. Not to mention that TV is the only category with flawed analytics.
Felix Baumgartner’s Descent to Earth
Often the things we take for granted in the present we dismissed in the past. We do not think twice about the computers we work on, the Internet that informs us, the jets that we fly in, the cars we commute with, and so many other modern conveniences. When these marvelous things first came into…
Bear with me as I promise not to conflate startups with the slow food movement* or any other such nonsense. Rather, the whole nature of growth and its impact on startups has been on my mind recently. I wrote a comment last week on Rob Go’s post on the topic of hunches in the tech industry:
