Category Archives: Countries
Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Development in Chile | One VC’s Experience
- Posted on December 29, 2011
- in Countries, Entrepreneurial Aspirations
- by admin
Israeli investor and entrepreneur Arnon Kohavi moved to Santiago Chile for 6 months and considered the feasibility of created a venture capital fun there. Fascinating interview by Anna Heim exploring Kohavi’s Chilean experience from The Next Web: AH: Why had you decided to move to Chile in the first place? [...]
Continue reading...Cairo-based Accelerator Flat6 Labs launches with 5 Startups
- Posted on October 21, 2011
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The latest trend in entrepreneurship funding and education is the accelerator (see YCombinator, TechStars, and Excelerate Labs). Just read about a new accelerator in Egypt. From TheNextWeb: The startup world in Egypt is beginning to thrive, at the creativity stage, but how many of them survive and become a success [...]
Continue reading...Where’s Britain’s Bill Gates? | The GEDI Might Know the Answer | The Economist
- Posted on September 29, 2011
- in Countries, Entrepreneurial Aspirations, Research
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The Economist wonders why there are few high-impact entrepreneurs in Britain: Britain has no digital equivalent of the 18th-century industrial innovators who turned technology into commercial leadership. Its more recent prowess in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology has not been emulated in the digital sphere. David Cameron’s government should ponder this failure [...]
Continue reading...Brazil: Heaven or Hell for Entrepreneurs?
- Posted on September 19, 2011
- in Countries, Entrepreneurial Activities, Entrepreneurial Aspirations, GEDIndex
- by Pamela
According to The New York Times, Brazil, home of the $35 martini, is the number one spot holder on the listing of the most expensive places to live. With all of this economic success, as countries such as Great Britain and the United States struggle, might Brazil be just the [...]
Continue reading...Zoltan on Blasingame’s Show: Can Entrepreneuship Save Europe?
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Continue reading...Can Entrepreneurs Save Greece?
- Posted on May 9, 2011
- in Countries, Entrepreneurial Aspirations, GEDIndex
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In the wake of the S&P credit downgrade to Greece — many questions about the country and the Euros are being posed. In light of this, we thought it would make sense to look into how entrepreneurial Greece is and whether entrepreneurship might help policy makers and investors involved with [...]
Continue reading...Mile High Skyscraper Planned for Saudi Arabia
While turmoil rages throughout the Middle East and commodities prices stay high, news out of Saudi Arabia includes plans for a 1 mile high skyscraper. Laurie Hanna at the Daily Mirror reports the story: Plans were unveiled yesterday for Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia which will be exactly one mile [...]
Continue reading...Why Singapore Lags on Venture Capital
Jo-Ann Huang of ChannelNewsAsia.com looks into the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) and wonders why Singaporean venture capital lags that of other nations. From Huang: However, when it comes to availability of venture capital, Singapore falls behind Hong Kong, Australia and the US. On a scale of 1.0, [...]
Continue reading...Singapore and the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index
Chung Peck-Ming of the Business Times covers the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index and highlights Singapore’s performance. GEDI builds on many of the early studies but pays more attention to qualitative aspects of entrepreneurship, zooming in on high-impact entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses. It sees countries roughly going through three stages [...]
Continue reading...Will the U.S. Dominate the Service Robot Industry?
- Posted on March 9, 2011
- in Countries, Entrepreneurial Aspirations
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The innovative edge of the economy is where societal wealth and further opportunities are developed most abundantly. This interesting piece in Bloomberg Business week looks into the burgeoning service-robot industry and early American leadership. From Brian Bremner of Bloomberg Businessweek: Five decades after Unimation’s debut, just as President Barack Obama [...]
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