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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

Instead, they're focused on "strategy", which lots of makers already have a good starting sense of. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi. Open your doors.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. In 2022-23, we started having a lot of demand for our programs so our premier program Founder Catalyst, that incubation program, started accepting more and more companies from outside the region.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. (The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. In the near term, the startup law will be one of the first major deliverables of the strategy. This is sample data that we use — that we extracted from business data analysis.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. I think the wave has passed.

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