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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

In today’s ever-changing, highly competitive business climate, small startups and large companies alike are increasingly turning to outsourcing processes. This is the type of outsourcing that is typically associated with the word in the first place, and can conjure up the image of comedic portrayals of frustrating customer service encounters.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies, and consulting firms. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. When they graduate, the Stanford students on these teams have the pick of jobs in startups, companies and consulting firms. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

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The Department of Defense Is Getting Its Innovation Act Together – But More Can Be Done

Steve Blank

In Iraq and Afghanistan innovative crisis-driven organizations appeared, such as the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. In addition, defense primes should more often aggressively partner with startups. It isn’t that the DoD doesn’t know how to innovate on the battlefield.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.

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Formula for Strategic Leadership

OnlyOnce

He was literally coming to us live from his command center in Iraq or Afghanistan when he was running the whole theater of war over there. The post Formula for Strategic Leadership appeared first on The Startup CEO blog. Years ago, I heard then General David Petraeus give a talk to a small group of us about leadership.

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How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems

YoungUpstarts

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old.

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