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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Below is my email to Jim and Kevin, following my debriefing with the VoIP expert, who requested to remain anonymous. > -jeff. To: < *@gmail.com > Hi , Greetings from Twilio!