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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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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the leaders driving edtech innovation in Austin’s vibrant tech community, Ruben Arias, CEO & Co-Founder of Beereaders, to discuss their business model and traction as well as why the city’s startup ecosystem was a perfect fit for their needs.

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The United Nations: a Network of Networks

Reid Hoffman

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. the business models to sustain and grow. Entrepreneurs find the right innovations from networks and build them into products and services with business models. My name is Reid Hoffman.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). More tiers = more complication = more confusion.

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