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Am I Properly Insured as a Business Owner?

Up and Running

In addition, if your business operates in California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, or Rhode Island, you are required to carry disability insurance. Your state’s department of insurance can help you find a broker, and you can also ask around for referrals from local businesses, or on social media.

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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

Irma and Maria together practically wiped out the entire island of Puerto Rico. But instead of being glued to my television or listening to the radio in my vehicle (because who has a radio in their home in 2017), I learned about these storms via social media. Here we go! And of course, put a smile on their faces.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Culture is the shared beliefs of others around you.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.). Culture is the shared beliefs of others around you.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

I think World Central Kitchen has been around for about 10 years, a famous chef named Jose Andres was a Spanish immigrant, came to the US, and started opening restaurants in Washington DC and became reasonably well known in the media circuit for kicking off the tapas movement at the time. They dropped in there.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

He was joined in his efforts immediately, as he told me, by dedicated and talented "self-selected people" who connected him with media outlets, politicians and more. Eric Ries : I think for a lot of people listening, they'll think to themselves, "Wait a minute, I was on social media at the same time as you were. That's what I say.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before. Every day, you go on social media. Is there a way we could've avoided or at least softened the damage? One trope I am really tired of hearing is that we are living through an unprecedented situation.