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Expense Management with the Most Radical Shorts Company in the World: Chubbies

expensifyadmin —  December 10, 2014 — Leave a comment

What do you do when you love something so much and want to change the current industry standard?

You start a company (obviously).

Chubbies Shorts Founders

The founders of Chubbies Shorts. From left to right: Kyle Hency, Rainer Castillo, Preston Rutherford & Tom Montgomery

For us, we had a vision to rid the world of expense reports that suck. For the guys at Chubbies Shorts, they envisioned an alternative, retro glam lifestyle from decades past. Two completely different businesses in every single way, but both ideas were born from a desire to change the status quo. Continue Reading…

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[CEO Friday] How to Bootstrap a Startup Ecosystem in 3 Easy Steps

David Barrett —  September 26, 2014 — Leave a comment

At lunch with the Tunisian Minister of Technology, M. Tawfik Jelassi, at the International Innovation Summit of 2014, the topic of the day was: how do you bootstrap a startup ecosystem?

Don’t Reinvent What’s Already Been Done

To be clear, the question isn’t “How do you recreate Silicon Valley?” I think Alberto Sillitti (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) has answered that question best: Silicon Valley simply cannot be replicated. It is the unique product of 100 years of risk, return, and reinvestment, starting with vacuum tubes and leading to the present. Silicon Valley is a petri dish of large corporations, startups, and industry/university partnerships, concentrated into a 100 km strip of land, and fueled by a global base of private investors. The conditions that created Silicon Valley exist nowhere else in the world, and probably never will again.  Continue Reading…

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