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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel.

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Why You Should Run Your City Like A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Scott Fadness, Mayor of Fishers, Indiana. Startups are agile. However, the demand for speed isn’t enough to make a team more agile, it involves enhancing autonomy, by first putting the right people in place. 90 percent of startups fail. The ability to quickly pivot also benefits cities looking to grow.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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The Labyrinth of Innovation Death

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

What process you use (Agile, Design Thinking, Other) does indeed make a difference, and choosing a process might deserve it’s own bubble. FYI:I’m doing a public workshop in Portage, Indiana, in association with the Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest, on September 19th, where this is the main topic. Register here.

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