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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S. Yes, the Ode of the tech valley has taken a hit — and we look forward to when they are back on top.

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Effects of the Post Brexit UK Immigration Rules on its Economy

The Startup Magazine

Over the coming years we will begin to see the trends and impacts of the new UK immigration rules on the UK economy, the numbers of migrants from both EU and non-EU countries, and on aspects of life such as wages, education, and general productivity levels of labour. An exception to this rule is for Irish citizens.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”).

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

Reid Hoffman

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests?

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

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Sites such as OpenSky and Send the Trend utilize recommendations by celebrities and experts to sell products. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. We did not know how to price and package the product. We DID have a great product, though.