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No Need To Reinvent The Wheel?

YoungUpstarts

How do you create a compensation model aggressive enough for this small group to feel like their options are the stunning wealth that comes with success or the “bankruptcy” of failure? There is a third way worth looking into: active utilization of the startup genre. Nokia is only one example.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Venture Capital.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? Ideally, innovative startups should be built on ideas that face little or no competition—and this is one of Peter Thiel’s key messages to entrepreneurs who want their startups to be “born global”.

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