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Lessons from Silicon Valley – A mission of discovery and progress

Let’s dive into an inspiring story. After an exciting month full of amazing entrepreneurial experiences our Fellows are back from SF and Silicon Valley, and they have these wonderful things to say:

Part 1

People can have truly wonderful jobs. Doctors for example help others get over health problems and improve their well-being. Academics push our society forward through their research on things that are yet to be discovered, whereas filmmakers seek to entertain us and drive our thinking and imagination to a whole new level. So what about the entrepreneurs, such as the Metavallon Fellows?
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Part 2

This is the second part of a favorite post for our Fellows’ inspiring and knowledge-seeking trip to Silicon Valley.This time we focus on 5 more lessons learned, while getting a profound taste of this wonderful entrepreneurial culture in the Bay Area. We also asked our Fellows to fill in other entrepreneurs on what they should be looking for before and while visiting the Valley.
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A diary of an aspiring entrepreneur’s visit to Silicon Valley

This is a photos and tweets diary of our trip to Silicon Valley, the earth of venturing!
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Transforming research: Sophicus meets Academia & Microryza in San Francisco

It is not every day that you meet people like Richard Price. The founder and CEO of Academia.edu, Richard is the kind of extremely passionate yet firm entrepreneur, who has the ability to inspire just about everyone for just about everything – and push towards the potential to achieve.
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