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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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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. Founded in 2011 and based out of London, F6S is one of the world’s largest founders’ online communities with over 2.7

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The company provides management consulting services to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies – I wanted clients to know that the company’s values include balance, perspective, integrity, stability, and practicality. Teuko is now the lunchbox community that empowers families who pack lunches.

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#GivingThanks: Lucy Sanders and NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

I met Lucy in 2004. Today, NCWIT formally describes itself as follows: “The National Center for Women & Information Technology is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization chartered in 2004 by the National Science Foundation. We were introduced by Terry Gold (I was on the board at Gold Systems).

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. See: TechCrunch. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets.