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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
It would be naĂŻve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic.... See more
International opportunities remain vast for those brave few willing to expand beyond local borders and limited markets. Put simply, itâs what the âSmart Moneyâ is doing. Data shows that larger market participants such as QED have shifted their focus more on markets outside the US in recent years.Given this international opportunity, deal flow and... See more
CIA analyst, Martin Guri described the vast amount of information that has engulfed us with this dumbfounding statistic:More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth. In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total. And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 âexabytesâ of new... See more
If the mention of words like web3, crypto, and their complementary acronymsâNFT, DAO, DeFi, et ceteraâprompt fears or jeers, derision or confusion, I shall serve as Virgil to your Dante.
On Failure: I think seeing failure is really important. Itâs important to learn the lesson of what didn't work, sometimes more so than learning the lesson of what did work.On Networking: Replace the word networking with relationships. Networking feels transactional; nobody wants to be networked. Your job in your 20s is to forge relationships and... See more