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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Given those kinds of attitudes, it’s hard to argue with Whitehill’s contention that “it’s relatively easy in America to start a business.”. Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. I’m not belittling the challenges American startups face. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Remember, they can’t eat you.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

Given those kinds of attitudes, it’s hard to argue with Whitehill’s contention that “it’s relatively easy in America to start a business.” Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil. I’m not belittling the challenges American startups face. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Remember, they can’t eat you.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! Matt Jones (2010-06-20) # Derek: Interesting article - Im not sure if you realize it, but youve basically described what the Agile community calls "User Stories" You may also want to look into tools like Pivotal Tracker for keeping track of stories and prioritizing / scheduling them.