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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. Our lease runs out in 2013. In addition to higher rents many cities impose city taxes on local businesses. It happens in a dialog with society.

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The World Benchmark Study Begins Spring 2022

UBI Global

What you need to know about the next World Benchmark Study Since 2013, UBI Global has conducted the World Benchmark Study, an analysis of the impact and performance of hundreds of business incubators and accelerators from around the world.

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Why USV is Joining the Libra Association

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Libra has been incubated by Facebook. When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra , was announced today.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Christina Theodoraki

Ecosystem Builder Hub

These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I also do research on incubators, as intermediaries between entrepreneurial and the ecosystem and how they decrease the gap between them. We are all connected to our ecosystem.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

If you want to be fluent, Duolingo needs innovation,” Niesner said. The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013. Bernhard Niesner, the co-founder and CEO of Busuu, which was founded in 2008, sees Duolingo as an entry-level tool that can help users migrate to its human-interactive service. “If

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 Extra Crunch membership now available to readers in Israel.