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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. As China, Brazil and India prosper, their increasingly wealthy populations demand more high-end products – a trend that favors the innovation industry. These costs are largely fixed.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. I work with clients from New York to Jerusalem, and get to work on the road, most recently beachside in Cuba and Brazil. I always loved languages. Thanks to Rick Sloboda, Webcopyplus ! #20-

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Roberts Engineering Building University College London Torrington Place (@ Malet Place) WC1E 6BT London Monday, January 16- London England Business Leaders Network Event At 6pm I’ll take the stage to talk about the ideas behind The Lean Startup and what it means to apply those ideas in practice. Register here. See you in Europe!

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Which Color Converts The Best?

ConversionXL

For example, white is the color of mourning and death in Chinese culture , but the color of death in Brazil is purple. They ran the test over a period of a few days worth of traffic and in total had over 2000 subjects visit. Can come colors make our website convert better? In North America, green is typically associated with jealousy.

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