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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. Venture Capital. This isn’t some small-time effort.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

Today we announced that Techstars has acquired UP Global, which includes Startup Weekend and many other fantastic events and programs. Startup Weekend is my absolute favorite global event for entrepreneurship. A few years later, Andrew had scaled Startup Weekend into a global phenomenon. Events were happening all over the world.

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The United Nations: a Network of Networks

Reid Hoffman

My keynote remarks at the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Event on Innovation and Technology – SDG Innovation. I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. The Bank of Israel played an important role guarding the Israeli economy from the effects of the global financial crisis. SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.,