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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S. Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria.

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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S. Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). have reached unicorn status.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Word That Could Represent Them and Their Business in 2019

Hearpreneur

On the personal side, I moved to my favorite city, Vienna, Austria, met great new friends and generally had a lot of fun this year. Haven’t joined the first tier among hundreds of competitors, we still get influenced by algorithm adjustment from search engines many times. Thanks to Angel Pretot, frenchfluency.net !

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

TaKaDu, founded in 2009, has launched its service with some of the world’s leading water utilities, including Thames Water in the UK, Wiener Wasserwerke in Austria, Sydney Water and Yarra Valley Water in Australia, Evides Waterbedrijf in the Netherlands, Hagihon in Israel and others. GOOGLE INSTANT BASED ON ISRAELI DEVELOPMENT.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s.

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