YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2013

Those games are characterized by many different tasks at the same time; diverse resources and skill demands; global and virtual connections; tight timelines, emergent targets; evolving rules. Radically different relationships and structures are required to accomplish complex tasks in chaotic environments.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2011

Intellectually, most people “get&# that the market for mobile technology and apps is a global one. Today, the appconomy is a more global phenomenon than ever, where time zones and national boundaries still exist in fact, but in practice mean less and less to our work and leisure time.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine).

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. Think of how many 10-year-olds there must be in the data to balance out the occasional person who started mid-career. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Today, the transformations are often from migrating all those rudimentary legacy systems into a technological windtunnel described by Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near. I'm sure we all agree the technology landscape has changed in the last 30 years, but are you blaming agile development for the global financial crisis?

Software Review 164

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

My keynote remarks at the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Event on Innovation and Technology – SDG Innovation. To succeed, we will need innovation that is both original and deployed at global scale. The question is: what is required in order to achieve these technologies and these strategies? Networks of capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization. This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively. I say this because Finland, where I come from, is really bad at this.

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

This brings back into the spotlight the technologies of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Given it eliminates distance, travel time and costs, “this technology will likely stick around long after COVID-19 fears pass,” according to the Forbes article. Virtual Helsinki. In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue.

Technical Review 164

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

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. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

His main scientific goal, whether it's addressing cancer, SARS-CoV-2, or something else, is "to bridge this gap between all the new really exciting technologies that I could see emerging and the actual practical applications of treating patients." I grew up in Finland. In addition, the transcript of our conversation is below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Female leaders make a strong mark wherever they are whether it’s as female leaders in New Zealand and Finland or like current US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Katica Roy describes this saying, “Startups generate jobs, boost productivity, create new markets, and develop technology that large enterprises depend on.”.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A By Richard Nieva.

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