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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Small Businesses Need To Prepare For Emergencies, Disasters

YoungUpstarts

In Louisiana alone, more than 20,000 businesses were shuttered. Check state laws governing business for the kinds of insurance you may need for your business, such as public liability insurance , amongst others. Aside from the devastating death toll, more than 125,000 jobs were lost in U.S.’s

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers. No regulation?

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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Terri is an executive with 20 years of experience specializing in government relations, social impact strategy, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, and innovative business operations to further the organizational mission. Marketing Podcast with Terri Broussard Williams. Marketing Podcast with Terri Broussard Williams.

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A New Idea for Black Friday

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The harder news, like the protests at Walmart in Ontario, Louisiana, got a lot less air time. While I have much sympathy for the protestors in Louisiana, I don’t have much hope for their getting better pay. I guess it is the story of the day, but how much can you make of it, what is there to say?

Louisiana 101
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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

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. She started a business selling gas cylinders with a loan from MFW that helped her buy two cars to make deliveries. She is even mulling a run for office in the gas providers’ union.

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