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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. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.] We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. All our cleaning products.

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Why You Should Run Your City Like A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Scott Fadness, Mayor of Fishers, Indiana. Startups are agile. Today’s business environment demands that we move faster – make decisions faster, identify trends faster, and get products to market faster. 90 percent of startups fail. The ability to quickly pivot also benefits cities looking to grow. Startups unlock creativity.

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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.