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Manjit Singh Sahota on Energy Tech Innovation in Oil and Gas Exploration

The Startup Magazine

Various countries are interested in drilling in the Arctic, offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and in other productive areas, and in new areas that have not yet been explored. One area experiencing significant growth in the number of operating oil wells is in Africa, whose oil wells are projected to increase by up to 9 percent over the next year.

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Reshoring – Why It Makes Sense

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It’s also not good that the most likely candidates for reshoring — high tech equipment intensive/low labour requirement operations — are very expensive to set up. However, recent news around American manufacturing has been about companies deciding to bring production back to North America after years of producing in Asia.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. A Government is just like a business in many ways. While the government is a monopoly in most of its realms, what if technology could assist us to ‘go around it’?

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ProfessorVC: Do you have a U.S. Strategy?

Professor VC

A similar trend is happening in alternative energy, the industry that has greatly benefited from both venture capital and US government assistance over the past decade. He believes that this transfer of manufacturing and engineering expertise out of the country will ultimately lead to less innovation.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants. Determined Founders.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants. Determined Founders.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

Olivier Mougenot, Investment Director, NUMA Paris , points out if you start with an offshore tech team, it’s easier and cheaper to expand it than start a new office from scratch. Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC.