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The Foibles of Pivoting: Why It Fails
The idea of pivoting in startups is almost as entrenched in entrepreneurial culture as the notion of disruption itself.
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Paul O'Brien
Venture Capital Manifests for Opportunity: It’s Not Available to Serve
For economic development professionals, community builders, and government officials committed to fostering entrepreneurship, it’s all too common to…
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Paul O'Brien
Venture Capital Manifests for Opportunity: It’s Not Available to Serve
For economic development professionals, community builders, and government officials committed to fostering entrepreneurship, it’s all too common to…
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Paul O'Brien
Regional Startup Ecosystems Must Embrace Distinction
What we can learn from asking of South and Central America
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Paul O'Brien
Is it Possible to Future Proof a Career Given AI?
What Marketing Could Teach Us if We Were Actually Marketing
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Paul O'Brien
The Challenges of Regulating AI in a Borderless Digital World
Texas moves forward House Bill 1709, The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA)
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Paul O'Brien
Silicon Valley’s Culture of Creative Destruction
The Role of Venture Capital in Reinventing Industries
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Paul O'Brien
From Socialist Roots to a Free-Market Startup Renaissance: Estonia
Estonia has long been hailed as the digital darling of Europe, a small Baltic nation that defied its post-Soviet limitations to emerge as a tech…
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Paul O'Brien
Driving Innovation in Corporate Environments
Established companies often lag behind startups in innovation due to structural and cultural constraints.
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Paul O'Brien
Invite your friends to read Startup Economist
Thank you for reading Startup Economist — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
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Paul O'Brien

December 2024

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