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our brandâs story and your productâs positioning need to be unique, personal, simple, repetitive, and reach the right audience. But this is how you avoid getting lost in the crowd, among the 10,000âs of other startups who wonât make it.Throughout these milestones, we focused on Accordâs POV: From Vendorship â Partnership. Thereâs a simple framework... See more
Diplomacy, in Cooperâs view, is high-stakes drama. An admirer of Shakespeare, he approaches it as a playwright would. Or a screenwriter. For example, hereâs how he sets the scene for Kennanâs epoch-making Long Telegram, the embryo of the U.S. policy on containment: âFebruary, 1946. Moscow. George Kennan is sick in bed . . . His ambassador is away... See more
A great deal has been written about what constitutes Venture Capital and what does not (including by this very author) in these seventy years. Though many different things to many different people, Justice Potter Stewartâs famous dictum in Jacobellis v. Ohio works for our purposes:I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I... See more
Technology is changing one of the most powerful forces in shaping society: ambition. What the most ambitious people choose to do with their lives has a profound impact on society, the economy and culture. Itâs changing, fast.First, that digital technology is the most recent in a series of âtechnologies of ambitionâ that have enabled ambitious... See more