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Things To Expect As A Woman Founder When Starting A Tech-Based Company

YoungUpstarts

I pitched to 86 investors before getting the green signal from only 5 of them. Before starting InvolveSoft, Saumya co-founded a startup right out of high school in New Delhi which focused on using technology to reduce gender-based abortions in India which was later acquired by the Indian Government.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

This initiative is starting with a $45 million pilot program that encourages collaboration between the government and industry for more support of new innovation in manufacturing and growth for the economy. India-based firms. It sounds strange, but firms based in India actually have quite a bit to do with a boost in the U.S.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman). TWTFelipe moved to Montreal, Canada. But I have some.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Well, there are some government and NGO contacts that I have in mind for her to explore. million financing round for.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests? This is especially true in developing countries where “green premiums” – the higher cost of choosing, say, an electric car over one with a combustion engine – are substantial.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • and of Green Dot CANNOT be retroactively analyzed for guidance as to what the next new thing will be. In the U.S. domestic GNP growth couldn’t touch.

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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.