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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

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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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

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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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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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

The platform also provides a judging and voting system to governments, nonprofit organizations, colleges and enterprise customers who are planning innovation challenges and contests. Europe, Asia and South America. He’s an award-winning entrepreneur with global business experience in 17 countries covering U.S,

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International Tourism Grew 4% In 2012: UNWTO

YoungUpstarts

” “Tourism is thus one of the pillars that should be supported by governments around the world as part of the solution to stimulating economic growth,” he adds. The Americas saw an increase of 6 million arrivals (+4-percent) , reaching 162 million in total. Performance By Region.

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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

crackdown started way back in the late 1970’s with the advent of the “ Lockheed Bribery Scandals ,” in which the company was accused of paying bribes to foreign governments in order to secure aircraft and equipment orders. The resulted in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ,” which made it illegal for U.S.

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We Needed a Bigger Room – The Lean Educators Summit

Steve Blank

It’s remade entrepreneurship education, startup practice and innovation in companies and the government. Lean Innovation in the Enterprise, Not-for-Profit and Government – what’s different. International: Success and Challenges of Lean Innovation and Customer Discovery in Europe and Asia [and South America? Australia?].

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