Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. It is the antidote to top-down control. It is open and empowering. And rebellion.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I love technology. And I’ve watched how, in a blink of an eye, technology went from products used by the very few, to ending up in the pockets of billions, bringing social change and corporate disruption. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. Let me be honest about my bias.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. A local government official was willing to go and look for our equipment personally, but it would cost money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. In Italy, if you bankrupt your business, you lose your driving privileges until you get a job and pay off all of the creditors.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 24, 2017

“Technological innovation should give us hope, not despair.”. Those words were a key part of the G7’s first-ever Innovation7, which was held last month in Turin, Italy. The Innovation7, or I-7, is a gathering of industry representatives from the G7 countries to help bridge industry and government.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine). The Founder Institute launched its first European chapter in Paris in 2010, and has since graduated 116 technology startups in the region (or approximately 18 percent of the 661 startups that graduated worldwide).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 23, 2012

Fifty years ago this year, the New York City Board of Estimate voted down Robert Moses ' plan to build a ten-lane elevated highway across lower Manhattan--leveling fourteen blocks along Broome Street in Little Italy and what is now SoHo, as well as the West Village. Pro-park, pro jobs, anti-people stealing using technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today’s modern technology means that the growth potential of SMEs is not limited by the size of the communities around them. Only 10% of SMEs believe they have the support they need to export successfully, and this should serve as a shot across the bows for the other stakeholders involved, such as banks and national governments.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 13, 2015

It’s easier for smaller countries to substantially re-orient themselves, as Singapore in particular has done, so the real point of comparison here are the other large developed countries: the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Company names like Apple, Amazon and eBay evoke an image of success and cutting-edge technology. For example, a name like “Italiatour” for a company that promotes tours to Italy can instantly excite audiences about foreign travel. It’s hard to overstate the importance of a business name. Trademark Research.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 2005, my wife and I moved to Pasadena from Naples, Italy, to join Caltech for what should have been a 10-month stint.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 24, 2024

The speech centers on AI, humanity, and technology—and weaves through Hegel and Hofstadter, cathedrals and griffins, T.S. And to also remind us that language, our greatest technological tool, evolves with us. An emerging technology. Elliot and Hyman Minsky, and more. Here’s the first dictum: 1. Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. “I

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Transformify

MARCH 28, 2020

(ii) be able to create temporary remote jobs for those living in the areas around the world that suffered the most like Bergamo and the red zone in Italy, Madrid in Spain, etc. We have the technology, expertise and experience to provide access to information, remote jobs and secure payment to those in need of a job.’’

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

We are leaders of 35 different technology companies with headquarters or offices in the Denver and Boulder metro areas. we are calling on government officials and other business leaders to restrict large group gatherings, including in the largest entertainment venues along the Front Range. Why are we taking these unprecedented steps?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. government, they must have state-of-the-art data scientists on this problem or that problem.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. government, they must have state-of-the-art data scientists on this problem or that problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. I thought I would come and there would be just massive buildings, really like technology infrastructure and squeeze everybody. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. They are businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

There is no doubt that technology brings benefits to our lives and I have been a heavy user of tech since I was 13 (in 1981). I lived and worked in Italy in the mid 90′s and weekends were sublime. And if you doubt just how pervasive the impact of technology on our daily lives consider this Tweet sent out today by the IDF.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The Golden Brat™ Shirt are crafted with Mercerized Cotton Lisle Yarn made in Italy, Certified High Quality , the shirts are natural stretch and follow the movement of the body, so are a No stress Shirt. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. 13 – The Industry was Antiquated.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. by Douglas M. Cast a wide net.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Being a high tech nation helped a lot too, as the government was able to leverage technology and track everyone who traveled to or from China, mandated that they download an app and report their health condition daily and tracked the activity of those infected prior to being diagnosed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union) made strategic decisions about what types of weapons to build (tanks, airplanes, ships, submarines, artillery, rockets), what was the right mix (aircraft carriers, fighter planes, bombers, light/ medium/ heavy tanks, etc.) government to aggressively fund atomic research, so that the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. This hypothesis might be the case until we saw the crisis in Italy. Eric Ries : Then somehow you made the transition from the scientist in a lab to the founder of a technology start up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2025

Later in the week it was revealed that Deepseek has likely copied code and data from ChatGPT, is most likely passing all the usage data to China and as a result it’s has already been banned by several organisations and governments (Italy, US for starters). AI is having its moment. Bonus: Israeli startup PLAYO.AI

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