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Austin’s Technology Hub Can Hack Digital Identity for Homelessness

Austin Startup

Digital identity on the blockchain has already been used for keeping track of vaccinations in refugee camps, for voting in Estonia, and is being tested in cities and states all over the U.S for various government services. It takes time and money to replace documents, both of which are scarce resources on the streets.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But I think its fair to say that the Dutch post-World War II welfare state isn’t exactly breeding the young and hungry entrepreneur you find in Turkey, Romania and Estonia. As a general rule, the more trust a society has, the lower the cost/friction of transacting with each other. But this shouldn’t take a whole generation.

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Key Insights from Every Speaker of Elite Camp 2017

ConversionXL

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play. Test with low cost? It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Determined Founders.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Determined Founders.

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Israel Ranked 29th in Easiness of Doing Business According to the World Bank

VC Cafe

The table below summarizes the costs and procedures associated with starting a business in Israel: The Economist discusses the report in detail in the current print edition, but some interesting stats are analyzed in Snipping off the shackles : Singapore is the easiest country to do business in, according to the report.