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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop. Image Source.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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Furniture CEO Finds Balance between Success and Staying Grounded

Hearpreneur

OFM manufactures, distributes, and provides wholesale school furniture from their headquarters – North Carolina. For twenty years, OFM has provided affordable, quality furniture through a dealer network to businesses, government, health care and educational facilities offering the latest concepts and designs in the furniture industry.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. Follow your network.”.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.