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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Now they are partners.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Portugal

The Next Web

Like in neighboring Spain, the country was hit hard with a headache-inducing unemployment rate that was concentrated primarily on Portugal’s youth. Instead of plunging the country into a deeper recession, this moment inspired an entrepreneurial zeitgeist that hurled Portugal headfirst into a technological renaissance.

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Recruitment Best Practices Through Virtual Job Interviews

Transformify

Some countries like Italy, Spain and France allow citizens to leave their home only to buy groceries, visit a doctor or a pharmacy. Most technology solutions available on the market are considered to be pretty reliable. Select and Test Video Conferencing Software.

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In the Lean In Era, Business And Tech Still Fail To Promote Women; 4 Ways To Fix The Problem Now 

YoungUpstarts

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. by Douglas M. Cast a wide net.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

Red Innova is a technology and entrepreneurship conference held in Madrid for the third year. A few numbers about Spain. To put things in context, Spain has a population of 45.3 million businesses registered in Spain, placing the country in the 8th place worldwide – not bad [ source ]. million people, a GDP of $1.47

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Will Bitcoin adoption be driven outside the US?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The US is a relatively stable and strong economy, with good rule of law, good financial technology, low inflation and financial institutions that most people have faith in (although many Bitcoin enthusiasts would beg to differ). So it is natural to assume that Bitcoin adoption will start first in the US.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.