Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. In 2016, the city agreed to add a smart eco technology center to showcase sustainable development, The Straits Times reported.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. He joined Fantag as an employee in 2016 when the company moved to Sacramento. COO Cheryl Beninga shared more about the company.

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Board Effect

APRIL 20, 2020

As Board President, I’ve been using my expertise to focus on training the current board in best practices for nonprofit governance. We’ve formed a Safety Committee, a Property Committee, and a Governance Committee, and we’re looking for the right people to form a Programs and Services Committee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each year, we bring you new case studies from Silicon Valley startups (and beyond), government agencies, and global enterprise companies, along with expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers alike. If you’re thinking about joining us at the conference for your annual innovation training on Oct. Also on Nov.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The company provides management consulting services to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies – I wanted clients to know that the company’s values include balance, perspective, integrity, stability, and practicality. Thanks to Vonnie Woodrick, i understand ! #26- 26- Inspired by a giant beanstalk.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

Pete Newell, Joe Felter and I met over coffee in 2016 to discuss our common goal – how to get students in research universities who would never consider working on national security problems engaged in keeping the country safe and secure. Few of my students knew what the DoD or other branches of government did. And why I did it.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. NSO – Offensive cyber espionage tools for governments (Raised $130M) – 60% of the company is owned by PE fund Francisco Partners.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? What type of brewery will you be: production brewery or brewpub?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? For example, for me the lesson of Bernie 2016 that is the coolest is the mobile fundraising innovation. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles. I love governments!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5 Global manufacturing.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking. In 2016, we founded Melt On Demand together, an on-demand massage company.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. Investors — The typical 2016 VC investor is also subject to emotional bias. Caveat emptor. SEC Visits Silicon Valley.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. 11 – Lesson Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

In India, there are about a dozen mobile payment players in the field including Paytm, Mobikwik, Oxigen, Citrus Pay, Freecharge, M-Pesa, ItzCash, Itzcash, Airtel Money, mRupee and MoneyOnMobile which has serviced over 170 million cumulative unique mobile phone subscribers through over 306,000 retail distribution points across India.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To see why, consider the decision faced by American voters in this 2016 presidential election. And it’s impossible to predict which handful of issues will actually get attention and change over the next four years; mostly governments produce gridlock, not change. This sort of simplification is logical, and necessary.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. As the third U.S.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. Happy New Year!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. Happy New Year!

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist. Happy New Year!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In 2016, equity crowdfunding became legal, and many people celebrated the potential for crowdfunding to democratize and change the nature of startup funding forever. Of course, there are many hurdles to overcome in this area, including with government regulations, technological functionality, and consumer awareness. Conclusion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : So we were in a very interesting phase because I started Carbon Health in 2016, so we were a four year old company, and we had spent the first several years really nailing the unit economics, the customer experience, really this software operations finance, and we had finally come to a place where the numbers were just undeniably working.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

This is the simple view that greets you, outbreaks from 1890 to 2016 with vaccine development during that same time…. That’s what you are seeing in the distribution above. But how does the time taken to develop vaccines compare to the speed and frequency of outbreaks? And how can we do it better? Each element is clickable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

A member of the House of Representatives (D – CA) since 2016, Khanna is one of just a handful of current Congresspeople who has experience working in the tech industry. ” I’ve always viewed government as the necessary platform for creating and maintaining the conditions for productive markets and entrepreneurship.

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