He is the driving force behind a local startup incubator program.
This is a guest blog post by Thomas Korte, Founder and Managing Partner of AngelPad, a San Francisco based startup mentorship program.
Only a few weeks ago the Canadians announced a new startup visa program that grants permanent residency to foreign-born innovators who received backing from Canadian investors.
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On the other end of the spectrum, very early-stage companies like JiveHealth, a product of the Startup Leadership Program, are getting attention on the national stage.
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For example, imagine that an entrepreneur from another country participates in a startup mentorship program in the United States, raises a first round of funding from investors, and wants to stay here to grow the company and hire more people.
While many points of this debate resonate on both sides, I want to give a first person perspective from someone in a top MBA program while concurrently launching a startup.
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The most striking thing about the program is that participants created tech startup ideas without ever having used the Internet, mobile apps or smart phones.
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The Sunnyvale, Calif. firm Plug and Play has a variety of programs for startups, including a Startup Camp, a program for international startups, and a program for startups spinning out of universities, as well as space that it rents out to new startups that need a small shared workspace.
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Since then, I was accepted into an incubator called Startup Chile and an academic program called Singularity University (started by the founders of Google and based at NASA), which have helped me to work towards that objective ever since.
Our organization, Startup Weekend, is one such program.
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It mentors black and Latino technical students and places them in Silicon Valley startup internships, and has a similar program for young women in the works.
Since Kiip connects people to real-world rewards on its mobile app, it would be a natural step for Kiip to eventually move into location-based rewards, say at local businesses through some type of check-in or loyalty program the likes of which Groupon, Foursquare, startup Belly and others are trying to provide.
The Last Mile is a six-month, twice-weekly program for prisoners to learn entrepreneurship while developing their own startup idea.
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Watch the video interiview with Kai-Fu Lee and Startup Asia author Rebecca Fannin, taped at the recent Silicon Dragon program held at the China Club in Hong Kong.
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This week, I attended the MaD Ventures Fellows program in Hong Kong, where 31 young entrepreneurs had opportunities to pitch their startup plans (all with some sort of social impact) and get mentoring from accelerator artists, angel investors and startup evangelists.
This week, I attended the MaD Ventures Fellows program in Hong Kong, where 31 young entrepreneurs had opportunities to pitch their startup plans (most with some sort of social impact) and get mentoring from accelerator artists, angel investors and startup evangelists.
In a related program, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) launched the NYSE Big StartUp.
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Viacycle - This startup provides everything that companies, colleges or others need to set up a bicycle sharing program.
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