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The ultimate travel guide for CEOs, techies, or (aspiring) founders who find themselves in the Mile High City for 24 hours.
The ultimate travel guide for CEOs, techies, or (aspiring) founders who find themselves in the Mile High City for 24 hours.
— but with plans to grow its cities and health-care focus areas. The four-year-old program brings 10 entrepreneurs together for 10 days to try to solve 10 wicked problems in the health-care industry.
— but with plans to grow its cities and health-care focus areas. The four-year-old program brings 10 entrepreneurs together for 10 days to try to solve 10 wicked problems in the health-care industry.
The startup world is dominated by men. Still. This is no secret. Just 17 percent of venture-backed startups have a female founder, according to a 2017 Crunchbase survey of more than 40,000 global firms. And that figure hasn’t changed in five years.
There’s a buzz around smart cities and it’s got something to do with the energy of experimentation, start-ups, accelerators, competitions, hackathons, disruptors, digital pioneers, new ideas et al. And while for many entrepreneurs the smart city movement offers them a first foray into business, in Denver, Colorado, a small group of serial, highly successful and very well-seasoned entrepreneurs are about to turn their business acumen to the smart city space.
10.10.10 has produced inventive solutions in the health care space. Now, the idea generator is taking on water and infrastructure.
After three years of programming in the health sector, Denver-based 10.10.10 nonprofit that seeks to match entrepreneurs with "wicked problems," launches its "Cities" program, focusing on water and infrastructure challenges, Monday, October 16.
Sometimes, seemingly intractable, “wicked problems" need an outsider to break through with a solution. That’s the idea behind the 10.10.10 initiative, a nonprofit founded by local serial entrepreneur Tom Higley, who brings together 10 experienced entrepreneurs from Colorado and across the country to discuss 10 “wicked problems” over a period of 10 days.
The third annual 10-day event focusing on 10 “wicked health problems” starts Monday
The organization 10.10.10 set out to help entrepreneurs find problems to solve, but its founder learned that his venture will be most successful if it focuses on one sector at a time.