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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Homeland Security launched last year at the Colorado School of Mines and Carnegie Mellon University. Project Agrippa , for example, piloted a new “ Hacking for Strategy ” initiative inspired by their experience in Stanford’s “ Technology, Innovation and Modern War ” class that Raj Shah, Joe Felter and I taught last fall.

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Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been an Amazon Associate (Amazon’s affiliate program) for many years. Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. and I woke up to the following email.

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I’m An Amazon Affiliate Again – Sort Of

Feld Thoughts

On March 8, 2010 Amazon fired me as an Amazon Affiliate because of Colorado HB 10-1193. Last week I realized that all of my going forward Amazon links (and other links to merchants with an affiliate program) were getting rewritten by Viglink. If you are a fired Amazon Affiliate in Colorado, take a look at Viglink.

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Help Repeal The Amazon Tax (Colorado HB10-1193)

Feld Thoughts

Colorado HB10-1193 – also known as the “Amazon Tax” – really upset me as I wrote about in Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193. I’ve enlisted my friend David Binetti to crank up another Twitter Campaign To Repeal Colorado’s Internet Tax.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy ― demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies.

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Trump Would Hurt Innovation (& I’m With Her)

Hunter Walker

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy ― demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies.

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Calling All Boulder Tech Companies To Engage With Downtown Boulder, Inc.

Feld Thoughts

I’ve written about the stupidity of these types of taxes before in posts like Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado Because of Colorado HB 10-1193. Please fill out the Downtown Boulder Technology Company Impact Survey (it’ll take 60 seconds). in a few weeks. Consider joining Downtown Boulder, Inc.

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