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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico. In Singapore, for example, the first question I''m often asked is, ‘So what do you think of Singapore?’ is amazing.

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VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? This is the next frontier for government to explore: how can leaders bridge the remaining interpersonal distances that separate people in social networks? Hwang: What we think of as free markets are actually not that free.