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enture studios have a shot at remaking the entrepreneurial ecosystem as we know it
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosstudio leadership has the right experience in the venture space
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosinternal services that studios use to "manufacture" new companies need to be thoroughly streamlined.
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosstudios only invest in startups for which they've defined the product, conducted market research, validated consumer demand and refined their plans accordingly.
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosa study of 23 leading venture studios found that of the 415 companies they created, only 9% have failed, 3% have successfully exited and the rest are still active with average yearly revenue of more than $1 million
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosstudios ideate internally, validate internally and invest internally
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosstudios are their own organizations
Five Common Questions About Venture StudiosStudios are more hands-on than other startup support models in the venture ecosystem.
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiosstudios decide which companies to build themselves
Five Common Questions About Venture Studiost oxytocin increases a person’s empathy, a useful trait for social creatures trying to work together. We were starting to develop insights that could be used to design high-trust cultures, but to confirm them, we had to get out of the lab.
The Neuroscience of Trustmployees in high-trust organizations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies
The Neuroscience of TrustCity Bank’s history in Haiti shows how imbrication of racial ideology and economic policy can occur.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpThe occupation lasted nineteen years (until 1934) and only ended because of a country-wide protest movement and adverse publicity for City Bank in the US. While the Marines were withdrawn in 1934, the Banque Nationale remained under the direct control of City Bank until 1941, when it was sold to the Haitian government for $500,000. Yet even after 1941, Banque Nationale continued to be managed by City Bank appointees, and City Bank continued to act as its international correspondent bank
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpThe US military occupation of Haiti acted as a guarantee on the City Bank’s investments in the country
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpIn 1914, in what was seen as a deliberate challenge to Haiti’s sovereignty, the bank ordered the transfer of Haiti’s gold reserve from the vaults of the Banque Nationale to Wall Street aboard a US gunship. By 1915, Haiti’s sovereignty was extinguished entirely when the Farnham Plan was effectively enacted with the landing of US Marines, an action justified in terms of Haiti’s internal political turmoil, the supposed threat of Germany in the Caribbean, and a desire to protect US interests.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpFarnham plan was a call for US military intervention based on racial paternalism, it was also a means through which the US military could be used to protect City Bank’s financial and commercial interests in Haiti.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trumpthe “Farnham Plan” it argued that Haiti’s internal political conflicts could only be settled by the takeover of the country by a stronger nation and that such a takeover would be welcomed by the majority of the Haitian people given that they were used to strong-men in power
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpFor City Bank in Haiti, racial designations guided financial considerations and economic policy was embedded in racist ideology
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpCity Bankers the population of Haiti, like that of much of the Caribbean and Central America, constituted an inferior race whose biological impediments were compounded by the climate-induced degeneracy and torpor of the tropics
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trumpreflect the sentiments about Haiti held by most Americans at the time, they also spoke to particular registers of disdain for the country within City Bank itself.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpAllen was called to a meeting at the State Department by William Jennings Bryan and asked to explain Haiti’s history and current
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpRoger L. Farnham and John H. Allen
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpCity Bank managers became critical liaisons for the State Department regarding Haiti’s politics during a period when the country was roiled by internal factionalism and disruptive pressure from French, German, and US political and business interests.
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpThey used these initial investments as a springboard to take over control of Haiti’s economy and financial system, especially through the Banque Nationale d’Haiti, a privately run bank of issue controlled by French and German interests
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before TrumpHaiti was one of the earliest targets for City Bank’s internationalisation
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog: Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trumphe secured the interest of the financial corporate groups, as well as working with the State Department to make sure that Haiti becomes a haven for capitalism, as he said.
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!the fact that American firms from Wall Street in cahoots with the federal government in terms of the State Department, the Navy
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!had professed to actually amending the Haitian Constitution to take out a very revolutionary constitutional clause that had banned white males from owning land in Haiti.
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!General Smedley Butler,
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!we are already talking about decades of gaps in development that were missed in the process because of where the money was going
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation | Democracy Now!slowness is a byproduct of care and intention
on slowness, taste, and living well - by Isabel - Mind MineMy yearning for slowness stemmed from an observation that the most effective people I know seem to move more slowly than everyone else.
on slowness, taste, and living well - by Isabel - Mind MineDeveloping taste is a matter of developing presence, because taste is a collection of things that bring you joy.
on slowness, taste, and living well - by Isabel - Mind MineRelishes being a beginner.
who do you admire? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nixEmploys logic/feeling in appropriate contexts.
who do you admire? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nixTaste is a commitment to a state of attention
who do you admire? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nixWhat we engage with, we internalize.
who do you admire? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nixWho you interact with on an intellectual/spiritual/physical playing field shapes you irrevocably.
who do you admire? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nixWhat looks like talent is often good positioning. And the best way to put yourself in a good position is with good preparation.
Unlocking Your Potential: What it Means to Do Your BestDoing your best is about the position you put yourself in rather than the result you get.
Unlocking Your Potential: What it Means to Do Your BestFeature-based teams are defined by the product problem we want to solve, and in most cases there isn’t a good metric that can accurately quantify success.
How Duolingo builds product - by Lenny RachitskyMetric-based teams are structured around clear metrics that impact something the company wants to improve, like revenue or DAUs
How Duolingo builds product - by Lenny RachitskyPM lead and an Engineering lead head up the team
How Duolingo builds product - by Lenny RachitskyWe use a combination of qualitative and quantitative signals to see if we are tracking toward success, which looks different depending on the feature.
How Duolingo builds product - by Lenny Rachitskythe key is that we do so with intention. This, by the way, eliminates the guilt that we feel when we binge-watch something.
Hyperfocus book: Chris Bailey on attention, productivity, and distractions - VoxThe distinction that I would make is between being intentionally and unintentionally unproductive.
Hyperfocus book: Chris Bailey on attention, productivity, and distractions - Voxwe should be lowering how overstimulated our mind is.
Hyperfocus book: Chris Bailey on attention, productivity, and distractions - VoxIf there’s one big misconception about focus, it’s that the problem is distraction. The problem is that our minds are overstimulated
Hyperfocus book: Chris Bailey on attention, productivity, and distractions - Voxbecause it’s not our fault that our mind craves anything that’s new and novel.
Hyperfocus book: Chris Bailey on attention, productivity, and distractions - Vox