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I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.
They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You have to solve for all of them.
We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint. For example, our Intel Technology To Market Accelerator took 22 teams from 11 countries across 15 time zones, from northern Russia to southern Chile and from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally. Berkeley-wide.
Innovations from various parts of the world we don’t usually expect innovation from The bookless library – San Antonio, TX Changing global wine map - Georgia, China, Chile Battling remote Oil spills – Arctic Circle Common Core Standards – State. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'
The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy built on technology and innovation.
Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. He currently owns businesses in Chile , Argentina, and Australia. He began his success in the agricultural industry.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. The impact of global instability. Truly “disruptive” technologies. Existing infrastructure.
Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market.
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So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth. Additionally, MiTú partners with talented Latino content creators to launch and grow their English, Spanish and Portuguese-language digital video channels and connect them with the global marketplace.
Babelverse is a start-up founded by Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne that was part of the government-backed accelerator program, Start-Up Chile. Babelverse recently emerged with top honors at LeWeb’11 , the internationally renowned technology conference based in Paris, France. Now that’s a lot of tongues.
Riding the wave of global awareness for the need to stay competitive, Tanzania has taken some positive steps forwards, including government investments in a fibreoptic backbone as well as strategic initiatives around promoting start-ups. industry in Tanzania. Marshall McLuhan wrote that “we shape our tools and then they shape us.”
Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. The company currently has only one technology development center, which is at their headquarters in Cupertino, California. Akamai Technologies Inc., AKAMAI BUYS ISRAELI COTENDO FOR $268 MLN.
Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.
Today we announced that Techstars has acquired UP Global, which includes Startup Weekend and many other fantastic events and programs. Startup Weekend is my absolute favorite global event for entrepreneurship. A few years later, Andrew had scaled Startup Weekend into a global phenomenon. Events were happening all over the world.
My keynote remarks at the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Event on Innovation and Technology – SDG Innovation. To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. The question is: what is required in order to achieve these technologies and these strategies? Networks of capital.
“Boston has lost its previous leading position as the innovation and high-technology entrepreneurship center on the East Coast.” New York checked in at Number 5 in the Ecosystem Index but it’s the global capital of female tech entrepreneurship. ” Chile Is Heating Up. Santiago, Chile. Paris, France.
has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. To date, Women 2.0 “Google is excited to team up with Women 2.0 We’re excited, with the help of Google, to create effective support systems that will reinvigorate innovation around the world.” ”
The Bank of Israel played an important role guarding the Israeli economy from the effects of the global financial crisis. Red Herring, a global media company, included eight Israeli start-ups among its European Top 100 for 2010 in recognition of their innovations and technologies across their respective industries. MS Tech Ltd.,
If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Bless you, chile! For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” Be succinct.
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