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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Total raised: $6.0mm. -Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. Open Government. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. Reader beware.). Calendaring.

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. the list goes on and on.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

While France is very strong on the engineering side, attracting foreign sales, marketing and product talents is often necessary. Enable start-ups to attract foreign talent Access to talent is key to improve the success of tech start-ups. A few measures that could help: Unique perspective on the Galerie des Glaces without any tourist around!

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.