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Web Summit Formula for Success: How to Meet the People Who Matter

Fifty thousand techies, entrepreneurs, corporates and startups descended on delightful Lisbon this month for Europe’s biggest tech conference. The agenda was packed: elite CEOs, heads of state, startup founders, supermodels and celebrities. We started with the little guys. We surfed…

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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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Starting Up in Switzerland: Batmaid, Studio Banana, MindMaze

Sunday morning we took off from San Francisco, landed a few hours later in New York and dashed to a distant gate to catch our connecting flight to Geneva, where we rode the morning Monday commuter train to lovely lakeside…

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How to Get a Job in the Capital of Tech: Meet SF Poster Bro

Meet Daniel. He’s not your typical down-and-out sign-holder. He’s not looking for a handout, but a job. Daniel’s got the hustle down. He took the initiative to write a hundred cover letters for LinkedIn job applications. He’s driving 40 hours…

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