Category: Featured Stories (Page 17 of 43)

Hangzhou will host the 2015 high-level overseas talents innovation competition. This competition is from April 2015, mainly for North America extensive collection of innovative business projects, through auditions, the semi-finals, the final phases, must elect a number of high technology content, business development potential of the project, inviting them to Zhejiang to “Hangzhou international talent and cooperation projects of the General Assembly”, participate in the contest finals, and to encourage the implementation of the project to the Hangzhou landing transformation.

Competition announcement details, please refer to http://pkualumni.org/files/2015hangzhou.pdf

Primaries in July, North America respectfully brightest scientific and technological elite, entrepreneurial hero, please sign up as soon as possible on the Internet: http: //tinyurl.com/2015hangzhou Read More...

Earlier this month, Sean Parker’s new civic tech startup Brigade released the first in a series of tools intended to reenergize public participation in our democracy.

The iOS and Android app (currently in private beta) is a place to express what you think about important issues, and see where your friends and others stand. Follow-on releases will include tools for users to start their own groups with like-minded friends and neighbors and take action, as well as some experiences around elections that will help citizens vote in line with their values.

Brigade is looking for high value early adopters who can provide meaningful feedback and would love input from the Founders Space community. Read More...

Did you know that over 25% of the world lives without access to the grid? In Burundi, the most energy-poor country in the world, 97% of the population lives off the grid with no access to electricity.

Alternative energy sources are urgently needed to power household and community needs such as lighting and cooking. Can your innovation overcome the limitations found in Burundi’s power challenge?

Learn more at http://bit.ly/1BnQ5os

We had 400+ people show up to the Founders Space Party on Thursday night. Here are some photos…

Draper University is a 7 week program for entrepreneurs who want to change the world. They bring together entrepreneurs from all over the world to build and launch a startup in 7 weeks.

It all happens in Silicon Valley with hands-on experiential learning from top founders, CEO’s and VC’s. At the end of the program each entrepreneur will pitch their business to a panel of VC and Angel investors.

Alumni have raised 15M+ and have started over 185 companies.
Apply online or learn more: http://www.draperuniversity.com

Recently, I traveled to Taiwan and met key players in their startup ecosystem. I also had the honor of meeting with the Prime Minister and his cabinet.

 
Here are the 8 things I learned while in Taiwan:

1) Taiwan’s older semiconductor and hardware businesses are flat. They need to innovate and are pushing hard on building a startup ecosystem.
 
2) Taiwan has an educated population with an abundance of engineering talent. Engineers are not expensive compared to Silicon Valley and most speak English well.
 

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Get in. Get funded. Get back to building your startup.

F50, a private network that connects founders with strategic investors, has officially opened up applications for its biggest and boldest season yet. The F50 team will select 100 startups and set the stage for them to connect with hundreds of professional, accredited investors from the Bay Area and around the globe.

With a target investment of $100 million across the selected startups, the F50 Network offers its founders a fast, free, easy-to-understand experience that positions them to meet their funding goals. There’s no catch. Really. Apply now!

We just found out about OPEN IDEA, an open source methodology, to support the “communication start-up process”, in small and medium organizations.

OPENIDEA.biz | Purpose Driven Communication Empowerment

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Our partner, KITE, is working with VISA to help them tackle 3 different marketing challenges by finding them good startups who could solve those problems. Founders Space startups are invited to participate in this challenge.

VISA is offering a $50K pilot to each suitable candidate and potential of recurring relation if the pilot is successful.

They’re looking for startups that can help VISA help with following three business challenges: Read More...

Wearable world has package deals for the exhibit space at Wearable World Congress for Founders Space members.

If you’re interested, contact Matan Bordo at [email protected].

DETAILS OF EVENT: Read More...