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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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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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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. It’s all fueled by an incredible global network of people on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals and communities through entrepreneurship.

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Why VC Isn’t Right for Most Startups, The Place Where Taylor Swift, Gwar & Cypress Hill are Equals, and Parrothead Memories (RIP Jimmy)

Hunter Walker

Chile’s Shantytowns Are a Last Resort — and Growing Fast [Eduardo Thomson/Bloomberg] – Historically sitting here in the US we’d expect to read stories like this about places distant from our own country. These tomas are growing at a dizzying rate all around Chile.

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