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Top 5 Innovative Business Ideas For Civil Engineers

YoungUpstarts

You just need to focus on the quality work along with a good sense of networking skills to build a PR and you will have good enough capacity to be the owner of a successful construction company. While construction, ministries, and the government have a set plan of safety protocols that must be followed by the company at all points.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). The same was true for PR. I wasn’t surprised. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. IPOs dried up.

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5 Reasons Why Public Relations Is Important to Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

There’s no denying that PR is an indispensable cog in any brand’s marketing machinery. For PR to work wonders for your brand, you need to have a strategic plan in place. Otherwise, your PR efforts will fall flat and fail to deliver the intended results. What is Public Relations (PR)? . Let’s understand! .

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Startups: How To Apply For (And Win!) Business Awards

YoungUpstarts

Judges may want to see your balance sheet, as this is the most concrete proof of your success, but you simply cannot afford the reputational damage of appearing rough around the edges — especially as some startups may have PR professionals on hand. Unfortunately, you cannot simply copy and paste from one application to another.

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Post Covid Possibilities – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

The Data & Surveillance: Digital Sovereignty – Governments around the world (excluding China & USA) will realise that they don’t have digital sovereignty They’ve essentially been colonised by ‘Big tech’ – in that they don’t own or control the most powerful tools in the modern economy – Digital Infrastructure.

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The End of Innocence

Steve Blank

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.