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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

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According to Rolf Illenberger, co-founder of VRdirect, a virtual reality platform in Munich, none of the big European tech companies are currently relevant to the future of the Metaverse. Even though Finland offers free and high-quality education, it cannot compete with Silicon Valley regarding salaries.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

whorunsgov : Eric Ries: Startups fail not because the technology works, but because no one wants the tech. Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. Its natural at a gathering like this to focus on new technology and applications. Federal government should do nothing.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. Not only does that company exist, it is Salzburg’s own Authentic Vision —and you will hear more from co-founder Thomas Weiss later this evening when he tells you about his journey as a Salzburg entrepreneur.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. And although both regions had outstanding research universities, MIT was way ahead of Stanford by every relevant measure.

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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster.

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