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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Unburdened by regulation and legacy infrastructure, these entrepreneurs are forging the future amongst a more decentralized, more level playing field. Telemedicine: The United States and much of Europe has over 2 doctors/1000 people.

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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Unburdened by regulation and legacy infrastructure, these entrepreneurs are forging the future amongst a more decentralized, more level playing field. Telemedicine: The United States and much of Europe has over 2 doctors/1000 people.

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

He found inspiration in the success of a mobile-phone business run by the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The bank would lend phones to a local entrepreneur in a poor village, who would pay back the loan by charging others in the village to use a phone. It was a profitable and self-sustaining model.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

You may have noticed that the Trump Administration is delaying Obama approved immigration policies to allow more startup entrepreneurs born in foreign countries to work legally in the US that was due to be enacted starting today. Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa.