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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Replicate what I was doing for others. We saw that many food entrepreneurs had these same problems. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking. Photo Credit: David Moise.

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Entrepreneurship Week and Europe’s Best Startups 2010

VC Cafe

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurship Week and Europe’s Best Startups 2010

VC Cafe

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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I was shocked – shocked! – to find out there are tech startups in Portugal

The Next Web

There’s Muchbeta , a nicely named Web applications company that is building a nifty news aggregation app for the iPad called Niiiws. I learned about initiatives like government-funded business incubator Startup Lisboa , Beta-i and the Lisbon Startup Pirates.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

” Gary Messiana, Bessemer Entrepreneur-In-Residence and former CEO, Netli. In most SaaS sub-markets, we find that Europe is roughly three years behind the US in adoption, and Asia is slightly behind Europe – although we have recently seen some interesting pockets of activity in Japan and India that may be accelerating.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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