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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed. Costing $250,000 ($3.2

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Not only do these requirements ensure that businesses operate within the law but it also protects small business owners and their consumers. . A small business is an independently owned and operated entity that engages in commercial activity and fulfills the set industry-specific size standards. Register your business name.

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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

BoardEffect Supports Good Governance Practices. As businesses came under scrutiny for poor governance practices, nonprofit organizations also came under the limelight, placing great pressure on nonprofit boards and executive directors. The need to demonstrate good governance remains a high priority today.

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Top Tips for Securing Valuable Stock in Transit

The Startup Magazine

They need to understand common scams used by sophisticated criminals, such as obtaining government credentials to appear legitimate or using the name of certified carriers that recently folded or sold. As such, you need to ask logistics firms how long they’ve been working with their staff and what types of background checks they do.

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Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

Projects like ENS and Handshake aim to solve the first problem with their own databases tying a BTC or ETH address to a human legible name, something like a decentralized DNS. Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet.

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Exclusive: Announcing a Startup that Brings More Efficient Government to the US and Other Countries

David Teten

I’m exceptionally excited to announce that I’m now Chairman and lead investor with some other angels in a new company, Spright Governance Inc. Spright is a spinoff of the Singaporean government, which will leverage their proven expertise and technology to run other cities, states, and nations globally. at $47,568. was ranked #71.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We need a separate command for the same reason that we need cyber or special operations as a separate command.