Cayman: Lessons from Silicon Valley
#UniTalks Lessons from Silicon Valley You’re invited to a special lecture by a Serial Silicon Valley Software Entrepreneur Friday, 25 November 2022 • 1pm-2pmAt the UCCI Cascade Room • Free Admission Light Refreshments Served at 12:45pm What’s behind the top tech…
Re-Imagining the OECS: Discover Opportunities & Innovate Forward
Monday, May 30, 2022 — Join the Caribbean’s present and future leaders this summer for an insightful and powerful dialog on advancing the OECS as a global innovation hub. The dialog is a CEO breakfast hosted by the Organization of Eastern…
How the customer interview illuminates innovation
By Christie Nicholson From Core77 Few companies set up their customer conversations in ways that lead to accurate and useful data. The key is to ask better questions. Often our most painful experiences lead to our best lessons. Here’s a…
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Inside a secretive luxury estate hidden in the Spanish mountains, where homes can cost $30 million and include helipads, horse paddocks, and Michelin-star chefs By Ruqayyah Moynihan and Christina Esteban From Business Insider La Zagaleta, located in Benahavis in the…
VC Lior Susan has a big idea that seems to be working: building next-generation industrial companies
By Connie Loizos From TechCrunch Many investors in Silicon Valley are waiting for the next big platform. That’s fine with Lior Susan, a former Flex exec who in 2015 co-founded Eclipse Ventures with the legendary venture capitalist Pierre Lamond, long of Sequoia Capital. The…
A Peruvian ex-president was arrested at a Silicon Valley restaurant on charges of being drunk in public
Reuters From Business Insider Alejandro Toledo, a former President of Peru, was arrested in San Mateo, Calif. for being drunk in public. Toledo, 73, served as the South American country’s president from 2001 to 2006. Toledo denied being arrested and…
US: FDA warns against using young people’s blood to halt aging
From Newsmax Taking a young person’s plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging — a therapy that’s fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley — has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Congress: It’s time to stand up for the right to privacy
By Matt Binder From Mashable Apple CEO Tim Cook is on a crusade to make tech companies care more about their users’ privacy. In an op-ed for Time Magazine, Cook once again called for a sweeping change within the tech industry…
VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be
By Kate Clark From TechCrunch On stage at Disrupt SF, investors agreed you no longer have to be in the Bay Area to win the startup game In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published…
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Breaking the bank or the myth of blockchain brotopia – or both?
By Nisa Amoils From Forbes If ever there was a question as to whether NY is the capital of fintech or blockchain, it was answered this week. Through a series of events from May 11 – 17, “Blockchain Week New…
