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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Entrepreneurs are driven to pursue their passions no matter the personal costs, societal pressure, family head-scratching or financial consequences. They get to sit in the back benches and holler at those in government about what f**k-wits the leaders are and how their do-nothing policies are ruinous to the people.

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Six Big Problems You’ll Solve When You Apply Design Thinking To Your Learning And Development 

YoungUpstarts

Learning was once considered a cost of doing business. When you’re seen as a cost, you’re seen as part of the problem, not part of the solution. When you can’t prove your value, you’re perceived as a cost. What happens to costs during times of economic anxiety? They get slashed, of course.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. each while Sharpie markers run $0.375 apiece. Looking ahead.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. each while Sharpie markers run $0.375 apiece. Looking ahead.

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Can AI become a tool to promote equality and fairness?

Version One Ventures

Those words were a key part of the G7’s first-ever Innovation7, which was held last month in Turin, Italy. The Innovation7, or I-7, is a gathering of industry representatives from the G7 countries to help bridge industry and government. Yet it’s a whole different pace of adoption in government.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. And the solutions to many of the worlds problems will come from the people as much as from governments. And rebellion. Think Tunia, Egypt, Syria and now Turkey. Collaboration.

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