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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. The ideal product manager – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! The green in the sky is the aurora borealis.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. Additionally, investment managers are attracted to matching long-dated pension liabilities with the extended duration nature of leased asset.

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Polar Bears!

VC Adventure

From what I could gather the town in large part exists because of the stipends that Inupiat receive from the Alaska Native Corporation (royalties received from the US government; payback in the government’s mind for stealing their lands generations ago). The experience for us was fantastic.

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Building The Right Corporate Culture, From A Self-Confessed Former Jerk Of A Boss

YoungUpstarts

The founder and CEO of Blinds.com – a leading Internet retailer of custom window treatments on the internet, specializing in blinds, shades, shutters and draperies – confesses that he was a jerk of a boss who used to terrorize his employees and micro-managed every detail of his business. Here’re some of those gems.

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[Review] Great By Choice

YoungUpstarts

A good 20 Mile March has the following characteristics: - clear performance markers; - self-imposed constraints; - are appropriate and specific to the enterprise; - are within the company’s control to achieve; - are bound by a time frame – long enough to manage, short enough to have teeth; - are imposed by the company upon itself; and.

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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

Feld Thoughts

Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.) Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners.