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Thinking About How Entrepreneurs Can Keep Today’s Employees Happy
“Many would argue that maintaining staff is easy and it merely comes down to finding the right price point at which an individual will stay and the Millennial phenomena of leaving for “better experiences” is a fad. I actually would argue the exact opposite…”
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Is There Really That Much Difference Between Startups and Corporates?
“…My personal argument is that startups are fundamentally no different than corporates in the grand scheme of business. Both the problems and benefits are very similar when looking at the two and the differences are merely polar opposites to each other along the same spectrum.”
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What Is the Right Level of Adversity Required for Innovation?
“…true innovation can only occur in conditions where individuals are nurtured to think long-term versus short-term. What that means is that they are able to think and live beyond their immediate circumstance and are allowed to dream and envision what can be versus having to live in the moment.”
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Diversity & Inclusion: Why It Is Important & How Do We Get More Of It
“One of the greatest strengths of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem is the large percentage of individuals who are willing to pivot. And not pivot in the traditional sense of the word. Pivot in the sense that individuals are not only wiling to adapt to their circumstances but who are willing to listen to a…
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Regulation: Does It Continue To Be A Necessary Evil Or Is It A Vital Component For Better Startup Development?
“There is no doubt that viewed from the lens of speed to market, regulation, particularly from a pre-technology perspective as it was implemented, acted as more of an impediment than a benefit. Or did it? Viewed from a different perspective, regulation need not be an impediment but a necessity from not only a human-based perspective…
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How Will Startups Thrive In An Era of Decentralizing Change?
“What we are seeing is a period of rapid foundational change that is causing dramatic upheaval. The question becomes how will this impact startups and how will startups cope?”
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Controlled Chaos: Balancing Individual Creative Freedom with a Regulated Framework
“While there will always be resource competition no matter how efficient we become or what alternatives we may discover, it is not resource competition that governments and societies need to focus their energies on. Competition in the 21st century will increasingly be about maximizing individual potential not just from a pure numerical perspective but from…
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Interesting People: Justin Arnold
(1) Who are you and what do you do?I’m Justin Arnold; engineer, Ironman, and entrepreneur. I am passionate about the environment, love to run, and enjoy building startups with amazing teams. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem.I’m part of a team that’s building a startup; we’ve been…
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Featured Startup: Blocklight
(1) Describe your startup.Blocklight is a bootstrapped company founded in March 2018 headquartered in Chicago working out of tech incubator 1871 with team members in Chicago, San Fran, and the Tampa Bay Area. We operate in the e-commerce space providing business intelligence to online sellers with monthly revenues between $500-$25,000. At our core, we’re a…
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Founder, TomTom: Leandro Margulis
(1) Tell us about your role at TomTom. The Developer Relations Team’s mandate is to build the developer community around TomTom Maps APIs via the developer portal (developer.tomtom.com) I am the VP & GM of Developer Relations at TomTom, the leading independent location technology specialist, shaping mobility with highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic…