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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

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Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. He teamed up with a number of Greek organizations, associations and institutions, including CoLab Athens (Greece’s first co-working space), which offers workshops and accelerator programs to startups.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

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Inspired by Riots Whitehill is founder of Entrepreneur Week , the Greek version of which was inspired by riots protesting the country’s austerity moves. But it’s easy for Silicon Valley startup founders pitching venture capitalists to forget all the advantages we have in the United States. Ignore the odds; be a survivor. Proactiveness.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN. How was this possible? Order Here.