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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car. The urgency of climate change concerns has triggered global actions to reduce CO2 emissions.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997. @Michels : Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery, offers insight into API management, services, and more.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years.

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Don’t miss celebrating these seasonal events for mission-driven organizations

Board Effect

This is a good event for nonprofits related to STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). 3 rd week of April: As part of Global Volunteer Month, National Volunteer Week seeks to recognize and empower volunteers to change the world through building stronger communities. 4th-10th November in the U.K.,

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” In the 1990s the U.S.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. The dearth of trained computer science and engineering is crippling the growth of many Innovation Economy companies.