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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. The country is dead serious in all levels of government and universities about making this happen. Instead it felt like the government – through CORFO - was doing most of the risk capital investing. This isn’t some small-time effort.

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

The platform also provides a judging and voting system to governments, nonprofit organizations, colleges and enterprise customers who are planning innovation challenges and contests. Founded in 2011 and based out of London, F6S is one of the world’s largest founders’ online communities with over 2.7

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

Feld Thoughts

If you think that bankers and lawyers drive innovation, this is a “good thing”; otherwise, this is an utterly disastrous government-sanctioned redistribution of wealth that discourages software innovation. This, I think, will be the unintended consequence of Bilski and the alignment of the government against innovation in software.

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Why predicting the future is more about sociology than technology

Start Up Blog

This chart above is from a new World Economic Forum report, Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact , predicts 21 dates in the future when previously unimaginable innovations will enter our daily lives, transforming the way we live and the way communities and governments function.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment.

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How to Start a Travel Agency

Up and Running

Moreover, what kind of travel agency does the industry or your local community actually need? Think about the people in your local community too—do they need something specific? “In Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”.

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And Then They Came for Me …

Both Sides of the Table

We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists. The fact that he called on nations like South Korea or Saudi Arabia to have their own nuclear weapons? We need a government that invests in and completes big things like public schooling, infrastructure and scientific research.