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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

New York checked in at Number 5 in the Ecosystem Index but it’s the global capital of female tech entrepreneurship. One-fifth of New York’s entrepreneurs are women and it’s home to twice as many female-run startups as Silicon Valley. ” Chile Is Heating Up. It’s neither better nor worse.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. I realized this class was teaching students exactly what it felt like to be an entrepreneur! We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint.

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English). Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. Africa ahead in mobile.

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4 Best Websites to Apply for Acceleration and Incubation Programs

Kodorra

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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Snapshot of Entrepreneurship Around the Globe

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2010 Report released yesterday estimates that 250 million people between 18-64 years old are actively engaged in. that an estimated 63 million of these early-stage entrepreneurs expect. that an estimated 63 million of these early-stage entrepreneurs expect.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Bank of Israel played an important role guarding the Israeli economy from the effects of the global financial crisis. Merck Serono SA, Europe’s largest bio-pharmaceutical company, has called on Israeli entrepreneurs and start-ups to collaborate with it through its local R&D center, Inter Lab Ltd.