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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The rest of the week is equally busy. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The rest of the week is equally busy. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. That’s right, I did door-to-door sales for four years straight in the armpits of America.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

So Corporate America has a dogs vs. cats problem — or perhaps a “Mars vs. Venus” problem is more appropriate. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. And mutual disdain and squabbling prevent the collaboration needed to thrive in a tough global economy.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In America we have ten federal holidays bringing the annual WD count to 240. We also have employment tax in America. Rules are complicated and vary by state, but as a rule of thumb you pay 15% in taxes including Medicare and Social Security. In terms of working days (WD), there’s 250 in a 50-week year.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Leave the full website for those who are curious to dig into the rest. In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. but in general I think minimal information to get an idea about what you do is enough.