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Is Switzerland the next big tech hub?

The Startup Magazine

When you think about Switzerland, there are usually three things that come to mind: fantastic watches, beautiful mountains, and gigantic corporate banks. The Global Innovation Index places Switzerland as the most innovative country in the world. Switzerland has a fantastic infrastructure that drives this new tech.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

The gamble was that we could train Professors doing hard-core science, who had never been near a startup or Silicon Valley, to get out of the building and talk to customers and Pivot as easily as someone at a web startup. we couldn’t keep them in Silicon Valley for all 8 weeks, so we tried an experiment in teaching remotely.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Not just in the military, but also in Silicon Valley, where it dooms otherwise successful companies. They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. The third is a focus on technology as opposed to transfer.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. March 13, 2018 9:30AM?—?10:30AM 10:30AM Hilton?

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

As IT talent becomes scares in many technology hubs like London, New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and many other big cities, the employers are left with no other option than looking for talent elsewhere in the world. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. I learned much and had great experiences. I used it as my “live now&# vehicle.

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