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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. In my short time in Chile, I spent time meeting with: Chilean entrepreneurs ; as part of Santiago’s Startup Weekend as well as EmprendeUC - DUOC New Ventures Contest Awards ceremony. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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30 Entrepreneurs Describe The Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 6- Transform into a global business.

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

The country also provides DesignCrowd with its largest source of designers, and revenues there have doubled in the last six months alone. We see the biggest demand for crowdsourcing and our service coming from small businesses and entrepreneurs in the US who seem to love crowdsourcing. DesignCrowd. Headline image via Shutterstock.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

And more importantly - whether it is or isn''t a bubble - how can the individual entrepreneur and/or investor profit and win in the current conditions? And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Let''s take the bubble question first.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

And of course it has revenue sources, mostly taxes, but some revenue from its non loss leading ventures. Empires got raided by countiries with better technology (South America) and shipping put England, France and the Dutch in dominant positions pre industrial mercantile / colonial era.