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Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur In Residence Five Year Results

Feld Thoughts

For the past five years, I’m been involved in an effort called the Global EIR program. It’s a national effort, led by Craig Montuori, that is modeled after an extremely successful program in Massachusetts, led by William Brah at the University of Massachusetts. The results in Massachusetts have been extraordinary.

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Announcing the Global EIR Coalition

Feld Thoughts

At the end of the discussion, we decided to start the Global EIR Coalition to open source our approach and try to help every state in the US implement a similar program. Last year Jeff and a bunch of his friends in Massachusetts created the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence pilot program.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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How To Speak Your Audience’s Language

YoungUpstarts

by Allison Shapira, CEO and founder Global Public Speaking LLC and author of “ Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others “ I once coached a woman who worked for UNICEF who was preparing a major speech to potential donors and talking about UNICEF’s life-changing work on the ground in conflict zones.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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While there may be initial grants that launch businesses and get them off the ground, philosophically, we believe that a model of self-sustaining development is the key to a stable global economic system. Well, there are some government and NGO contacts that I have in mind for her to explore. million financing round for. Voices.com.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

One thing Vin said that I liked a lot is that the Malaysian government is spending heavily on tourism development campaigns, and Qyzzy may be able to become a part of that campaign. If, however, as in Suresh's case, the game plan is to go after a global market, the scenario changes quite a bit. Google Adwords advertising.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. Finally, we believe that government plays an important role in the technology economy by investing in infrastructure, education and scientific research. Donald Trump does not.