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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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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency. You’ll have the chance to expand on your application and convince the panel that you’re right for the program.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health

Steve Blank

government is the leading payer for most of health care, and under ObamaCare the government’s role in reimbursing for medical technology will increase. Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable.

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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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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform.