Trending Now: Old News is Dead
Today’s journalists in Silicon Valley are also techies and entrepreneurs On a gloriously sunny and mild, February afternoon at Stanford University, leaders in journalism, app design, and investing gathered to usher in a dawning era of media, while somewhere else a bell was tolling for the end of the news business as we know it. The panelists at the Stanford GSB’s conference on the Future of Media were the faces of a fractured industry attempting to reinvent itself...
read moreFrance Inaugurates Its First TR35 Awards Competition
November 2012 marked the official launch of the TR35 France Awards, now called MIT’s Innovators Under 35 Awards, an annual prize organized in countries all over the world by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Opinno. The award acknowledges the achievements of up-and-coming entrepreneurs whose projects have the potential to change the trajectory of business, technology, and society. It has been a months-long process of networking with leading...
read moreFounders Events in SF
There are a couple of activities taking place in San Francisco and you might not want to miss them! Here’s the info for WavePlay’s January events. If you register through us, you’ll get a nice discount. Promotional discount code for registration: opinno WavePlay January 2013 Events Founders Space San Francisco January 2013 Roundtable—-Your clients receive a $5 discount with the promo code: http://fssfjan2013.eventbrite.com Founders Space...
read moreThe Internet of Things
We are still here “We are still here.” That was the headline in the Chicago Tribune in 1910 after the Comet Halley crossed the cold Chicago skyline. The New York Times had previously reported on the vision of a renowned scientist who warned of the possibility that toxic gases from the tail of the comet could “probably extinguish all life on the Planet.” Well, after surviving at least four catastrophes that threatened to destroy our Planet...
read moreFailure Culture in Start-ups
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la In the technological entrepreneurial culture, it is well known that most start-ups fail. The number is very high: 3 in every 4. The reasons can vary from running out of funding or losing a founder, to determining there isn’t a big enough market for your product or service. Either way, failing in Silicon Valley is one of the least terrible things that can happen to you. When we start a company, fear of failing can be...
read moreLabco: Innovation in Prenatal Biomedicine
As I introduced on my last post, our most recent commercial launch is a blood test for non-invasive prenatal testing, a test that can assess risk for Down Syndrome or trisomies 18 and 13 with no risk for the mother or baby. This opens a new window to prenatal testing, and represents probably the biggest advance in obstetrics in the history of medicine. But this is not intended to be a scientific publication, or at least not what I should be writing on. And I...
read moreThe Founder Institute Expands To Colombia
According to founder Adeo Ressi, The Founder Institute is the largest accelerator in the world. In addition to its locations in the US, the organization has expanded its footprint abroad, and today over 20 percent of Founder Institute graduates are international. Two years ago Adeo Ressi decided to expand into Latin America and considered multiple countries, including Brazil and Argentina. However, despite these larger and more mature markets, it was Alan Colmenares, on...
read moreMedellin, The City with ESPACIO
Translated by Conrad Egusa Medellín – the name itself conjures up a sense of story across the world. It is no secret that not only ago, Medellin was arguably the most dangerous city on the planet. The city was home to some of the largest illegal organizations the world has ever seen. However, the strength of good governance and the strong will of the people have changed the city. Today, Medellin has positioned itself as a center of innovation. Most recently,...
read moreUS senator vows to fight in-flight device use ban
Many of us are flying to visit loved ones this holiday season, with our arsenal of electronic devices—iPads, cell phones, laptops—in tow. As a standard part of the safety briefing before takeoff, our trusty flight attendants will inform us that some of those devices can’t be used while a jet is airborne. But that may soon change, at least if a US senator from Missouri has anything to say about it. Senator Claire McCaskill on Dec. 11 wrote Michael Huerta,...
read moreThe End of the World
Today I bring a topic that will not leave anyone indifferent: World’s End. The collapse of Humanity. The Hecatomb. The Apocalypse. Regular readers will wonder: wasn´t this a blog about Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation? You are right. Read on, please. The Mass Extinction 65.5 million years ago an asteroid the size of a city collided northwest of the peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico, where a huge crater of 280 km (170 miles) of diameter can still be seen...
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