The Accelerator Conundrum is a multipart series that challenges the prevailing wisdom of the tech startup ecosystem that entrepreneurs should Blitzscale out of the gate. Written by Sramana Mitra, the Founder and CEO of One Million by One Million (1Mby1M), the world’s first global virtual accelerator, it emphatically argues that a better strategy is to Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later, focus
Our neighbor, Carl Jacobson, came back from Australia the other day, and talked about a conference he was attending where many big world issues were discussed. In particular, he was talking about Indonesia, and how its moderate Muslim population / leadership is important for the future peace of the world, and needs to be an
As I pondered the question of rebalancing the population of Canada, I looked up their unemployment rate: 7.8% in 2004. GDP? $978 Billion. So let’s look at the GDP statistics ($ Billion): 1. United States 11,711.8 2. Japan 4,622.8 3. Germany 2,740.6 4. UK 2,124.4 5. France 2,046.6 6. China 1,931.7 7. Italy 1,677.8 8.