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Hydrogen-Powered Defense: The Next Big Thing?

ReadWriteStart

Thornton hired Erik Limpaecher as a senior technical staff member in the energy systems group and Mark Donahue as the program manager for autonomous systems and control before leaving the Lab after 15 years. A: Mach Industries is a startup founded by Ethan Thornton in 2003 that develops hydrogen-powered platforms for the defense industry.

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4 Tips To Build A Deep Virtual Bench Of Talent

YoungUpstarts

days and data from DHI Hiring Indicators shows that the average job opening remained unfilled for 28.1 days in 2001-2003. Since implementing artificial intelligence into their recruiting process, Unilever saw the average time to hire an entry level candidate dramatically reduced from four months to four weeks.

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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

He studied computer engineering while attending Stanford University. The largest search engine and streaming site were eventually combined due to this. In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis were friends who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. Photo Credit: Robert Calderon.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company. The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#. 15 minutes.

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8 Entrepreneur Share Their Biggest Business Fails and How They Rebounded

Hearpreneur

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.