The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Pune, India?.

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North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. Assisting on company due diligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

Professor Wong Poh Kam of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre said that there can be too much micromanagement by bureaucrats on entrepreneurship incubators, which tends to then disincentivize them. There was also the issue of a lack of a sizable talent pool in Singapore, which can severely curtail growth of local business.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 5, 2024

The high-tech industry, which has been a cornerstone of Israel’s economy, contributing over 40% of GDP growth from 2018-2023 and representing 53% of its exports, is now navigating through a period of adjustment and uncertainty. A new report from the Israel Innovation Authority paints the current state of Israeli high tech in 2024.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 20, 2020

reviewing the app/staging/branch before it goes out). At Version One, we have a core belief that technology can transform the world. we first have to arm our builders with the best tools to unlock the power of technology. Jam’s mission has inspired a fantastic investor base to come together for their $3.5m seed round.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Congratulations!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

Business moves so quickly — due to advances in artificial intelligence, shifting consumer behaviors, and other trends — that new industries and professions are continuously being created. An oft-quoted 2013 Oxford University whitepaper forecasts that 47 percent of jobs could be lost to technology over the next 20 years.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Abhijit Mitra , who joined Outreach last year as president of product and technology, will become the new CEO and Manny will step into a new role as Executive Chairman of Outreach’s board. Uniswap Hook Incubator, which guides devs through every step of launching a hook, is now open for applications for their 3rd cohort.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

Thank you to the Austin Technology Incubator at UT Austin for creating the Austin startup scene as we know it! This is no exaggeration: Austin’s startup community would not have taken off without the solid foundation laid by the Austin Technology Incubator , the longest running active tech incubator in the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). TheNextBigZing.com. She wants to sell these products on her site.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

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Israel Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. All content is reviewed and ultimately posted by dedicated in-house editors.

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Early Stage Technical Review New York Deal Flow 133

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. Endeavor Miami was the first US office of the Endeavor Global organization of worldwide scaleup accelerators. Yet all can have a significant impact on our quality of life.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

News )—Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, UPenn Wharton, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Kellogg, UC Berkeley Haas, and Columbia Business School—and eight of the top ten global MBA programs , are all on the list of unicorns. Global Fashion Group (3x HBS, 2x Wharton). as ranked by U.S. Of these MBA unicorns, 63 founders are represented.

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Programming St. Louis Cofounder India 120

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Kir Devries.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In Moscow, we attended the twelfth annual Congress of the European Business Angel Network , held April 23-24, at the Digital October technology entrepreneurship center.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

They simply need the diligence and work ethic to learn and to implement. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Discuss.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Ankur has uncovered a very real and substantial problem in the transportation industry spanning road, rail, ship: very often vehicle capacity goes under utilized due to lack of information on cargo and its whereabouts, and lack of communication among shippers and their clients.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do. Discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2018

Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. How Do Accelerators Impact the Performance of High-Technology Ventures? , Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. Who Needs Contracts?

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LP Incubator Venture Capital Technical Review 107

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting American Electric Power in the launch of its IlluminationLAB global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. If you have a technology that can help us better communicate with customers, let us know. June 17th 2019.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So a lot of the basics are the same, but the big difference between what would be, you know, a local business, as opposed to a potentially global international business is growth.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Innovation is a driver of many businesses globally. What I truly appreciate about Mr. Masiyiwa is that he is always striving to be better and he has great incubators for young African entrepreneurs. Henrique co-founded Brex, a financial service and tech company based in San Francisco, California. 2- Jeff Bezos.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review Cofounder 125

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting Volvo Financial Services in its launch of its iLabX global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. iLabX Technology Accelerator. A full list of mentors will be announced in due course. Sponsor Comments.

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