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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones. Startups are up to Silicon Valley standards.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

My twitter stream and email inbox has been full of links to the NY Times article published yesterday — Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley. On my trip to Rwanda last year I wrote a blog post on why I thought diversity in general was important.

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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." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.