Exploring the World
San Francisco
San Francisco is probably the #1 destination in the world for ambitious entrepreneurs... for now.
Actually, many different elements make the Silicon Valley a very attractive place: nice weather all the time, open-minded people, world class universities, most innovative companies in the world, incredibly high wages, investors at every corners...
Yet, this attractiveness has caused the city's rentals to grow insanely, pushing many inhabitants to leave the area for cheaper places like Austin, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle.
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Not every city in the world can enjoy such a mix of academic excellence, business success and living welfare. San Francisco has enjoyed it for years and may now need to fight to keep this uniqueness.
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Dedicated to the VR industry, this space host a dozen of teams working on diverse use cases such as medical training, tourism and entertainment.
Regularly, they host events with great panelists to discuss state-of-the-art and emerging trends in VR.
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Website: uploadvr.com
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Remarkable places
Sutardja Center @ Berkeley Engineering
Home of the Innovation collider, a UC Berkeley program letting student from every continent forming teams and competing in an innovation challenge.
The idea is to address a challenge fixed by a corporate partner. The teams need to come up with an idea, assess the opportunity and set up interview with market players.
Winners of the program are invited by the corporate to discuss their idea in details.
Website: scet.berkeley.edu
San Francisco
FrenchTech Hub
The team's mission is firstly to support the establishment of french tech companies, as well as to export American businesses to Paris.
French Tech Hub's team of experienced entrepreneurs works with the best market advisers and technical experts to help IT and Life Science companies launch and expand on the US market.
Also, with a big community of French expatriates in the San Francisco city and bay area, the FrenchTech hub enables everyone to promote their startups, ask for potential open positions, recruit, network, ...
Website: frenchtechhub.com
