Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

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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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As part of connecting with local Argentinian entrepreneurs and part of the amazing Endeavor networks here and South America, Wences and I recorded a podcast to share what I and Silicon Valley can learn from the robust entrepreneurial ecosystem down here. My quintessential teacher here is Wences.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To improve your chance of getting recruited, here are four of the best websites to apply for these elusive programs globally. The platform also provides a judging and voting system to governments, nonprofit organizations, colleges and enterprise customers who are planning innovation challenges and contests.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

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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Start Up Blog

MAY 5, 2020

These are my conclusions, which I think provide a solid template for examining the global economy: The False Dichotomy: We don’t live in a world that is either strictly global or national. Many of the things we regard as local actually have more global origins. Both co-exist and have done so for a very long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer I’ve seen several articles discussing global opportunities for startups, or recommending International expansion for growth. Most of you probably will not remember the “ Lockheed Bribery Scandals ,” in which the company was accused of paying bribes to foreign governments in order to secure aircraft and equipment orders.

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