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When Entrepreneurship is Bad for the Economy

Tuesday, 05 November 2024 by
Entrepreneurship has long been celebrated as the ultimate engine of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. But what if the fervor surrounding “being an entrepreneur” has gone too far? The glorification of entrepreneurship as an end in itself may actually be hurting our economy. As with most cultural phenomena, the truth is more nuanced than
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Europe’s Regulatory Environment Evolves

Monday, 04 November 2024 by
Monday Ventures: Weekly What’s Shaping the Startup Economy Europe’s evolving regulatory environment is shaping up to create substantial shifts for startups, affecting talent attraction, competition, and market access across the continent. Below is an in-depth analysis of the latest policy changes that promise to redefine the European startup landscape. Talent Acquisition and Employee Ownership Europe
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Rethinking Startup Ecosystems to Build What Investors Really Want

Monday, 28 October 2024 by
In most of the world, startups are in disrepair. No more effectively can we just reboot or defrag a computer to actually fix it, than we can try again and again to host demo days, networking events, and run incubators, expecting different results, when there is a virus in the system. Begging the question, that,
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Seeking Better Startup Founder Agreements

Monday, 28 October 2024 by
Ever see a pie chart like this, or can you at least envision one, wherein a partner of yours (or God-forbid, you), expect a majority control of a startup? I get asked all the time, about how to handle retaining control when it was my idea or how to deal with a cofounder who wants
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SEC’s Enhanced Disclosure Rules Could Transform Startup Fundraising

Monday, 28 October 2024 by
Monday Ventures: Weekly What’s Shaping the Startup Economy In late October, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed new rules on private capital raise disclosures that have drawn widespread attention in the startup community. Historically, private companies and venture capitalists in the U.S. have enjoyed relatively light regulation in fundraising disclosures, which has allowed
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India’s New Data Protection Law Affects Startups

Monday, 21 October 2024 by
Monday Ventures: Weekly What’s Shaping the Startup Economy On October 20, India officially enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), a sweeping new data privacy law set to redefine how companies manage and protect user data within its borders. The DPDP Act brings India’s data protection standards closer to Europe’s GDPR, mandating that companies
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Seek the Contrarian: What to Expect of a Good Entrepreneurship Program

Tuesday, 15 October 2024 by
In a speech in Paris, in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt remarked the often encouraged, “Comparison Is the Thief of Joy.” That, when we compare ourselves to others, we rob ourselves of our own happiness as, through comparison, we either feel a sense of inferiority or superiority. What we see in entrepreneurship and among founders is this
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