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Peruvian government working on $20 million fund for tech startups
The Peruvian Deputy Minister for industry and small and medium size enterprise, Magali Silva Velarde-Alvarez, announced the Peruvian government is working to allocate $20 million to help technology...
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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned
The Next Web’s Startup World – the global competition to promote entrepreneurship and startup culture globally- traveled to Mexico City, Peru, Chile, Buenos Aires, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda...
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Startup + Reality Show = Teeth Grinding, Anxiety and Alcoholism
People keep asking me: “what was it like building a startup on a reality show?” I have to admit, I think I have a problem: severe pain in my jaw due to teeth grinding in my sleep from anxiety, having...
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Geeks Without Bounds Organizes Hackathons to help crisis response for Sandy
Humanitarian tech accelerator Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) is helping to organize six international hackathons this weekend to aid crisis response for the devastating effects of hurricane Sandy. In...
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Bravo’s Startups Silicon Valley: What did you think?
Episode one of Bravo’s Startups Silicon Valley aired Monday. In the 40 minute segment, which has courted much controversy in Silicon Valley, my brother and I pitch to valley VC Dave McClure for a $500k...
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Telerivet lets you create your own SMS service anywhere in the world [video]
Last week was the 20th anniversary of the SMS, and what better to celebrate than news of a startup enabling you to set up your own SMS service anywhere in the world? SMS is old news to us in the West,...
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Gender specific tech events: Are they counter productive?
Women 2.0, Girls In Tech, Rails Girls; there’s a plethora of gender specific tech events, normally leaning towards women, trying to counter the male-dominated field of the technology industry. But when...
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MaiTai: Richard Branson invites Silicon Valley elite to kiteboard on Necker...
A group of twenty Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs and professional kiteboarders were invited by Sir Richard Branson to spend the first week of January on his private island in the Caribbean:...
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Sundance 2013: Robert Redford says technology and change main themes
Founder of Sundance Robert Redford opened Sundance at the famous Egyptian theater in Park City by saying technology and change were the main themes for 2013. Referring to the industry changes...
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Robert Scoble to judge at Startup World San Francisco – Applications now open!
The Next Web’s global startup competition Startup World is coming to San Francisco on the February 19th. The competition has seen over 100 startups pitch in Mexico City, Lima- Peru, Santiago- Chile,...
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Shira Lazar and Howard Marks to judge Startup World LA
The global technology startup competition Startup World is coming to southern California on the 6th March at the ROC in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. An all-star line up of judges including What’s...
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How the internet is democratizing luxury
France has been getting some bad press of late where entrepreneurship and disruption are concerned. First there was the damning New York Times piece about how all the French entrepreneurs are moving to...
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