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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. She said that Korea really wants to build a “creative economy” and that understanding why the US is so innovative was important to her. Most Koreans I know have the pressure to succeed and not let down their families and perhaps that makes it harder to take risks.

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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, Image courtesy of creative commons license. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. Configure fo the pro.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

I lived through this again September 2001. But get everybody to commit to sitting in the room until the terms are pounded out and creative solutions are reached for areas where you are at odds on terms. I lived through this again September 2001. Many companies that were in the process of raising money did not.

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How to Engage Employees—Sustainably

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My colleague Markus Oeller and I had to be more creative. And whether you’re in Germany or not, it’s a good reminder that being creative about employee benefits pays off. After having worked in London, Frankfurt and San Francisco, he returned to Hamburg in 2001, where he lives with his wife and his seven-year-old twins.

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Inside Apple Software Design

Andreessen Horowitz

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.