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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern).

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Tom Eisenmann.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. I had this discussion with Steve with the camera rolling and we talked about “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” as place that largely grew out of defense and government spending plus research labs around the Stanford campus.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. We also do a lot of cross-sector collaborations: bringing in for-profit, government, nonprofits, etc. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley.

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy.

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See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. A new study shows the number of immigrant-founded startups in Silicon Valley has tumbled from 52.4% since 2005. Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.