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Tech, Innovation, and Politics in a Turbulent Year: SmartUp’s 2017 in Review

From Paris to Lisbon, from Ljubljana to Helsinki, and everywhere in between, it’s been a big global year for SmartUp, as we spread out from San Francisco to meet and interview amazing entrepreneurs and startups around the world.  Here’s a…

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Startup Passion in Paris: Station F, Le Village, Ecole 42 … et plus

Meet La Nouvelle Paris, a dynamic, accelerating ecosystem of bold tech shrines to global startup fever, coding mastery, and business innovation. Plug into the wildly disruptive, zero-tuition, gamified non-university, 42: the coding school sans curriculum or professors. Reside in Le…

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China’s Tesla: The NIO

I’ve just met my dream car, and let me tell you, the EP9 has a lot under the hood. She delivers an awesome 1,341 horsepower. Advanced torque vectoring to adjust that muscle to each wheel. Insane acceleration: 0 to 60…

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Europe’s Silicon Valley Deep Dive

Disruption comes from escaping your box and approaching a business or service from an unlikely angle. Last week, in a packed ballroom at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, you could view Silicon Valley on the ground, or from…

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