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Founders Interview: Atlas Group London – ConstructionTech Transforming Healthcare

The Startup Magazine

The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late. Governments are prioritizing healthcare projects now, more than ever. What is the key question you are addressing?

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. Microfinance institutions are able to offer more competitive loan rates to their users to take advantage of lower costs due to dealing in cash. What are mobile payments?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher."

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Many international entrepreneurs are looking at what is working in the USA and cloning them in various countries, our venue partner in Rio De Janeiro, Peixe Urbano (which means “Urban Fish” in Portuguese) is based upon the Groupon model. Governments supportive of technology. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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Four Takeaways from WATEC 2011 Cleanvest Summit

VC Cafe

In addition to the investor-entrepreneur socializing, the government of Israel was able to score two key contracts with two foreign nations. Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel. Freshwater is expensive.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….