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The future of events in a social distancing era

VC Cafe

Even as governments discuss their ‘exit strategy’–meaning slowly relaxing quarantine measures over the course of weeks or months–it’s hard to imagine conferences going back to normal in the near future. So I got curious: if virtual conferences and events are going mainstream, is there a virtual event aggregator?

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Community is the aggregate of a web of relationships that flow naturally through a place. Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. Community isn''t just something you create by setting up a place to have coffee or to work.

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Stay On Top Of Modern Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

In the 1960s and 70s, youth culture was counter culture, fighting big business and big government in an effort to be heard. Here are a few modest suggestions: Change the way you consume news: Curate your news from those who you respect, using tools like Nuzzle, which aggregate the headlines that are shared by the people you follow.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This post is a continuation of a series.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This post is a continuation of a series.

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I Wish I'd Known That. [Digital Analytics Edition.]

Occam's Razor

Companies care about money, non-profits care about impact, governments care about costs reduced. Aggregation of marginal gains! The CMO was shocked at how big the number was. The next day he approved a job req for a VP for the Web position. Great lesson. They all care just about outcomes. Go back make more love. blood, sweat and tears.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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