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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. Safe Eyes had been named the #1 parental control product out of 11 products tested by Consumer Reports. We did projects with the Australian Federal Government and McAfee. We put our heads down, worked hard, and learned as we went.

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Nonprofit Embezzlement Cases: Examples to Learn From

Board Effect

The nonprofit consists of a network of charter schools the senior advisor founded in 2005. She used a different name to secure employment with a different nonprofit and failed to disclose her prior indictment. The employee had access to critical financial systems, and she created fake invoices in the names of legitimate groups.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation.

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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

Earlier this week, Ron Klain was named President-Elect Biden's chief of staff. In fact, a coronavirus caused a shutdown as recently as 2005. He was named President Obama's Ebola czar in 2014 and led a coordinated response to that disease, resulting in only 18 cases and 2 deaths in this country. Pandemics have happened before.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. You can't even know everyone's name. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Introduction

Austin Startup

Lucky7 is named after my mom , who was an amazing woman and entrepreneur herself. We would build the “voice of the marketplace” (Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of The Cluetrain Manifesto , the most important marketing chapter of any book I’ve read, as I discussed in What’s in a name? ). this was 2005.