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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average. Truly innovative.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we turned the spotlight on Latin and Central America. Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. We have done that in 1M/1M.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. With ITU as its incubator, EMS is homegrown and developed within a university by university staff, as opposed to software from the large profit-driven companies.

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Though both startup accelerators and incubators are used to help nurture young companies, the two platforms have subtle differences.

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10 Higher Education Trends To Watch For In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Danny Iny, author of “ Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach “ The way America prepares its young people for the workforce is shifting. Once the education bubble bursts, America’s current higher education path will change dramatically.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

It’s also the first company we’ve helped incubate! Their mission is to create conditions of prosperity for all, providing financial applications (like cash transfer programs, P2P lending, collaborative small-scale insurance, digital assets and wallets) to the large populations on this globe who are unbanked or underbanked.

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