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Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid

Steve Blank

intelligence community was desperate for intelligence. intelligence community had concluded that the future of gathering intelligence over the Soviet Union would be with spy satellites orbiting in space. By the early ’90s, the alarms were clanging away; bankruptcy came in 2001. In the early 1950s the U.S.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

The government ; the Innovation Division of the Ministry of Economy , the Chilean Economic Development Agency , (CORFO) which sponsored Start-Up Chile and Do Future in Patagonia as well as Fundacion Chile , the main R&D agency and the National Innovation Council. This isn’t some small-time effort. Corporate Connections. UAV’s?

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How Retailers Can Finish on Top of The Pandemic

The Startup Magazine

Independent and particularly small retailers are facing bankruptcy, and consumers are spending their time online or shopping at major chains like Costco or Walmart. Relationships between employer and employee can be particularly fraught, especially as government aid distorts the market. The Community is in this together.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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Common 501(c)(3) Rules and Regulations

Board Effect

The government recognizes that charitable and certain other types of organizations provide valuable community services that would be impossible for the government to provide using taxpayer funds. While the government can’t fully support nonprofit organizations, the 501(c)(3) code of the IRS classifies them as tax-exempt.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM