YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Business Month named MCI one of the five best-managed companies in 1990.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

crackdown started way back in the late 1970’s with the advent of the “ Lockheed Bribery Scandals ,” in which the company was accused of paying bribes to foreign governments in order to secure aircraft and equipment orders. The resulted in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ,” which made it illegal for U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2018

I knew that Dominos was paving America’s roads , but I didn’t realize they were branding them. Farhad Manjoo has a good article in the NYT titled How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities. Would it be weird if I sold sponsorship rights to my first name? Mona List Overdrive has come true.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

State of Independence in America. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. As the article points out, this approach was common during the 90s Interent boom. Name and email address are required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

The international opportunity is large, as I related in an earlier article , but there are some major challenges as well. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer I’ve seen several articles discussing global opportunities for startups, or recommending International expansion for growth. Most of you probably will not remember the “ Lockheed Bribery Scandals ,” in which the company was accused of paying bribes to foreign governments in order to secure aircraft and equipment orders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has a unique ability to use his name and his platform to open doors. As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Like, "Oh, come on.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. This article was first posted at OnlineMBA.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

The opportunity is large, as I related in an earlier article , but there are some major challenges as well. As a follow-on to that article, here are a few examples from my personal experience: You need to translate/localize your products. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. HR rules are local.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every marketing tech vendor, marketing trade publication, if you see a list article of tactics on a given channel, six ways to drive leads from LinkedIn for your business, I’ve seen that article in 17 other places and it looks identical. I came out of the marketing tech world. Best nickname ever, The Parrot Man of the Caribbean.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I’m a distance runner and I love live music and wakeboarding, not to mention the fact that I now work in the tech industry and have built a startup nestled right in the middle of Austin’s penchant for showcasing the best in local (food, music venues, you name it) to travelers. candidate, Lakeya Omogun, recently called disingenuous.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Unfortunately, outside of the IPO-syndicate-bias and the much-maligned Sarbanes Oxley, the article does not address far more serious systemic regulatory consequences that further exacerbate the problem– such as the combined impact of decimalization and the Spitzer decree (taking trading commissions down from $0.125 per share to $0.01

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing. Lots of companies launch with credit cards, for instance, then make a name for themselves and catch the attention of angels and venture investors. read more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2018

Author’s note: This is the third article I’ve written about race and diversity in Austin. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Equity Office shared that several streets in Austin will be renamed because they hold the names of confederate soldiers. I sincerely hope that my intent isn’t overlooked. I’m writing for two reasons.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

This post followed my exposition of the argument that America would face an overall crisis in innovation, drawing on work by Judy Estrin and others, in September 2008: The Innovation Crisis Is Coming- Let’s Do Something About it Now! Meanwhile, millions of jobs have been lost, and innovation in America continues to suffer. <script

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. A version of this article appeared July 11, 2012, on page B1 in the U.S. Edition Home.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy joining us, we also assigned her recent article in Foreign Affairs, “How to Prevent a War in Asia” and CNAS report “Sharpening the US Military’s Edge: Critical Steps for the Next Generation”. But we’re America, we know how to do this. We came out of Vietnam.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. Changing Attitudes Among America’s Largest Generation. But as the CT Corporation survey shows, they’re going to need some help.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2023

Grow up on government cheese, little blocks of cheese from the U S D A and food pantries. In the article where they say, you know, burn the boats and the, and destroy the cooking pots, and that obviously that makes people say, I have no choice but to win h how can I take that co that concept and appropriate it for peacetime activity?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. But I remember even in that very, very dark moment, you had this very positive vision of you're almost calling it like America's homeroom, a way that we could turn the pandemic into an incredible learning opportunity. We need to wait for the government to fix it."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

Max Henderson founded Covid Act Now to help with that process by making data-driven recommendations for sheltering in place (and later, for reopening) combined with public advocacy guidance to get local government to pay attention to the real facts about spread and safety. My name is Eric Ries. I don't think so. Eric Ries : Max.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. We owe our grandparents a debt of gratitude for the institutions that still govern our daily life. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. Eric Ries : And governance is like that.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

We’ve gone in-depth on how to build a memorable brand for your business, so check out the articles below for more information on branding. Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”. Naming your business and applying for a Federal Tax ID number.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Hunter Walk: You were one of the first reporters to focus on Trump’s money trail instead of his tweets, in both longform New Yorker articles and your Swamp Chronicles series. America is worse than it was before and, probably, worse in a semi-permanent way. Adam, respond to this question with something encouraging! But the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

At FLYJETS, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are the driving force behind everything we do, and we seek to be proactive about delivering impact. Once the article is written and the information is fresh in my mind, there isn’t much planning required to shoot a brief YouTube video. 1- Three ways.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 27, 2015

Donald can’t combine what he knows now with what he doesn’t know about government. Don’t get me wrong, I think an outsider with no direct experience in government could possibly do something great in Washington. By the way, Trump’s grandfather was a German immigrant named Drumpf. Neither can The Donald.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali : My name is Eren Bali. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley. This is Out of The Crisis. It's been a long 18 months, hasn't it? His number one takeaway is one we have heard again and again. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 5, 2018

I just returned from a week’s vacation in the mountains where I had almost no Internet access but was aware that Ronan Farrow had published a damning sexual misconduct article about Les Moonves, the Chairman & CEO of publicly traded company CBS Corporation. whether in government or private enterprise.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

John Jantsch: Yeah, and… Ryan Urban: They just didn’t come up with a GDPR name for it. They don’t know how the Internets work, so the government enforcing this, that’s never gonna happen. That’s not the intent of a like widget on a article page or a product page. I think it’s just U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers. No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. I'm not just any troll.

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