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If you’ve read aboutMonterrey, Mexico in the news lately, chances are it wasn’t for good reasons. Once better known for its tech and educational institutions, the Mexican city has unfortunately been plagued with drug-related violence over the last couple of years, culminating with the narco-terroristattackthat caused 52 deaths two weeks ago. It’s in this tense context that around eighty participants gathered to create their own companies duringMonterrey’s first Startup Weekend. According toVlad Horbovanu, one of the event’s organizers, they were determined to show that “there are still a lot of people [in Monterrey] that build instead of destroying”; and that’s exactly what they did....

If you asked a bunch of founders what the number one thing they look for in a startup hub is, you’d probably get a few different answers. The one thing they’d agree on is the need for the right people. Whether that’s investors, employees, customers, or partners. It’s one of the reasons we see founders flocking to locations like Silicon Valley, New York, and Shenzhen. But the overwhelming concentration of startups in these areas has also resulted in fierce competition for funding, customers, and an ongoing ‘war for tech talent....

Why my startup is rejecting the ‘new normal’ New isn’t necessarily ‘better’ What you build Employees come to work for you every day because they enjoy their responsibilities and feel they’re fairly compensated in terms of salary and benefits. Why they stay, however, is more intangible. At UpstartWorks, we’ve always encouraged team dinners, group exercises, and multiple opportunities per year for our remote employees to be physically present with the rest of the team....

TNW Africa has previouslyshared the newsabout Pivot 25, an upcoming mobile developer challenge in East Africa. Set to take place in Nairobi, the challenge aims to spotlight some of East Africa’s most innovative and promising mobile startups to an influential community of operators, venture capitalists and angel investors. To further unravel some of the developments going on in the region in general, and Nairobi specifically, we caught up with Erik Hersman....

Following the Big Bang, our budding Universe slowly cooled, and the first atoms took shape. Gravity gradually pulled on clumps of hydrogen and helium gas, forming the earliest stars. This era, lasting a few hundred million years prior to the large-scale formation of stars, is called the cosmic dark ages. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), an ambitious concept to place a massive radio telescope on the far side of theMoon, would study the Universe during this ancient era in detail for the very first time....