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 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 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...
read moreFinding talent, the new start-up challenge
By Celeste North (@celestenorth) of emprende.la The amazing growth of Start-ups emerging in Latin America has given way to new challenges to overcome. Finding the right people to work with is most definitely one of the most common ones, a challenge that Silicon Valley has faced for several years. One of the most valuable things of Silicon Valley is that it is crowded with entrepreneurs, designers and developers eager to start their own projects or join an interesting...
read moreYet Another Mobile OS? What Now?
I have used a smartphone since 2009 when I bought an iPhone 3GS. Although I’ve since switched to an Android device, I honestly don’t know how I ever managed without one, regardless of platform. Up to now, there have been three main mobile platforms powering smartphone handsets: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry could count as a fourth, but the platform is currently suffering from sparse adoption and declining market share that...
read moreYour New Home Awaits
Opinno’s Madrid office is expanding beyond the fifth floor of Gran Vía 16. Three stories up from one of Madrid’s most lively commercial boulevards, Opinno has opened a co-working space and an events hall, which hosts individual entrepreneurs as well as organizations like change.org and Multivent. The move signifies the company’s continued support for Madrid’s community of innovators and its efforts to facilitate the exchange of ideas among the members of the...
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