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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. And that is what we’ll do.” Now they are partners.

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[The Philippines] Harnessing Apps To Tackle Traffic

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Trip Barker , a community-based trip planner for mass transit systems through which users can share real-time weather, traffic, and events with their community, won the Best App Award and P100,000.00 plus a nomination to the 2014 Mobile Premier Awards at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next February.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. Last up, Fortunato Cardenas from Barcelona, Spain, presented Green Earth Aerogels , a nano-materials company in Barcelona, Spain focused on developing insulation gels from rice.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

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I went to Ibiza in Spain with my wife and in-laws before we were married. Running a local community / mentorship program – I run a group called LaunchPad LA. You get on a plane at a moment’s notice because a senior customer agreed to meet you. You call in from your vacation because you’ve had a service outage.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. How should we as entrepreneurs and as a community be acting? [00:52:12] It’s actually true.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

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Most notably, it provided access to underserved communities and rural areas, and inner-city areas, all of which have long-standing issues with a lack of medical services contributing to health inequities. As it turned out, patients liked the new format as it helped with unforeseen instances of transportation, missed work, and childcare.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

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Jinni is powered by the Movie Genome, a big, ongoing project with the Jinni community to describe video more complexly. Kaltura also offers a 100% free, community-supported version of its software and source code, available from Kaltura’s developer community. Our project. TVersity - Company Website. TvTak - Company Website.

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