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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

The government ; the Innovation Division of the Ministry of Economy , the Chilean Economic Development Agency , (CORFO) which sponsored Start-Up Chile and Do Future in Patagonia as well as Fundacion Chile , the main R&D agency and the National Innovation Council. There seemed to be few tools, techniques and strategies to do so.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Germany, Ireland, Israel, and most other non-Asian nations also provide major tax incentives, and huge R&D tax credits. Government should learn from private industry and invest research funds just like a venture capitalist invests startup capital. We need to make a strong manufacturing base a national priority.

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5 Outrageously Innovative Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020

ReadWriteStart

Take, for example, Israel, whose rate of entrepreneurship is still growing tremendously, despite being the second-biggest startup hub in the world for the past several years. In the past decade, hundreds of interesting, innovative tech companies have emerged in and around Israel—and they’re worth learning from.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business? Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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10 Takeaways for Israeli founders considering the UK

VC Cafe

On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner). Here they are in no particular order.

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more. AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market.