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Book: Where The Jobs Are

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Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. China Free Trade Agreement. . “Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore” Make the SBA More Entrepreneur-Friendly. Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Cultivate the Formation of Viable New Businesses. Increase Startups Access to Capital. Negotiate a U.S.-China

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Maps for Unity: Location Based Games and Mapbox

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Unity, with its massive user base and comprehensive tools radically decreased the time to market for game makers. Mapbox now has more than 750,000 registered developers with maps used by 250 million end users each month — including National Geographic’s city guides, AirBNB’s service in China, and Doordash’s real time directions.

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HAXLR8R In San Francisco For Their Demo Day on June 18th

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So it warmed my heart when I heard that Cyril Ebersweiler and my long time friend Sean O’Sullivan were starting an accelerator in Shenzhen, China called HAXLR8R as part of their Chinaccelerator initiative, both which are part of the Global Accelerator Network. I love software wrapped in plastic.

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The Magic Moment When You Shift To Executing As Fast As You Can

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After months or years of iterating and pivoting, they finally have the right product for the right market at the right price. Just last week Gnip announced that they added the largest microblogging service in China to their Enterprise Data Collector offering. They need to stop looking for gold and start mining as fast as possible.

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Water Equals Food Equals Income

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Not only can these farmers now finally produce enough vegetables to meet their own families’ nutritional needs, they become micro-entrepreneurs by growing additional crops to sell in local markets, substantially raising their incomes. But Driptech’s contribution to poverty eradication doesn’t end there.

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