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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. Governments supportive of technology. We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Many female entrepreneurs.

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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

It turned him instantly from an education technology expert--his day job is as VP of Growth at Course Hero--into a leading voice for how to move forward. You have a day job here in Silicon Valley at an education technology company. We saw that in New York, for example, very connected to Italy and a lot of cases very early on.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.