YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world. billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). Some say it is a curse. Today, with about 7.2 For the last decades we grew output by 1%.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. The thing that struck me so powerfully then was that virtually everything we were doing was at the intersection of foreign policy, and technology and innovation….

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. The thing that struck me so powerfully then was that virtually everything we were doing was at the intersection of foreign policy, and technology and innovation….

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

He found inspiration in the success of a mobile-phone business run by the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Later Jimenez explains, Scientists who moonlight as solvers can use novel means to explore long-standing problems. It was a profitable and self-sustaining model. We are trying an open source accelerator at George Mason.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company.

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