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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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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. France is not a socialist country, but it's a socialized country, and the French get a lot in return for the taxes they pay. The Big Players. The Funding.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

I cant remember if the SEC was one of the government agencies that Rick Perry wants to get rid of (but neither can he ), but it seems like this is the exact type of investor that the SEC was set up to protect. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, from gay social network to design, we made the decision within 10 days to focus exclusively on our new One Thing, and we set a rule that not one person on the team could still do the old thing.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. IPgallery’s deployed converged communication solutions include core network centric solutions and Value Added Services for residential and business subscribers. Amos Spacecom. Logia Group. MailVision.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. You couldn’t increase wages, and that was mandated by the government.