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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Founded in August 1946, ONR provided support of research at universities when WWII government funding to universities had dried up. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. It could be an urban area where several startups settle (think Silicon Alley in London) or a grass roots organization like the famous ‘ home-brew computer club ‘ or even a hipster coffee place like Berlin’s Oberholz cafe.

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Founder Institute doubles down on Europe, now runs 10 startup accelerator programs continent-wide

The Next Web

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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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. And the solutions to many of the worlds problems will come from the people as much as from governments. Prices down.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Two of our companies have African-American CEOs; two have Latino CEOs.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Two of our companies have African-American CEOs; two have Latino CEOs.