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In the Lean In Era, Business And Tech Still Fail To Promote Women; 4 Ways To Fix The Problem Now 

YoungUpstarts

Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. Governments, stock exchanges, and industry groups in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand, for example, are very active on gender diversity issues. A mere 5 percent of Tech’s senior executives are women.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I moved to the United States in my late teens and my first job was as a cleaner. I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). I grew up in Minas Gerais, Brazil and my mother was a cleaner in my home town.

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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]. Many of the greatest medical advancements in history were born out of state universities and public academic medical centers. Hospital System Roots. municipal bond market.

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Why You Should Know Your Local SBDC

Up and Running

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here about the value of the local Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), a network of about 1,000 locations in the United States, generally a great place to go for frontline, street-level small-business advice. Details are slightly different from state to state.

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Howard Charney on Cisco, Growth, and Cloud Computing

Austin Startup

Five years ago, almost no one was talking about cloud – but today it is increasingly strategic for a broad range of industries, for academia, for governments. That’s how I joined the company – when Cisco acquired Grand Junction Networks back in 1995. The “Cloud” is an example of how quickly this industry evolves. billion business.

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

Reid Hoffman

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures

Ben's Blog

The Government axed the project shortly after. Furthermore, why would any person want to use this ungainly and impractical device when he can send a messenger to the telegraph office and have a clear written message sent to any large city in the United States? We do not recommend its purchase.”. The Internet.