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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. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. Capital Solutions.

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[Review] Great By Choice

YoungUpstarts

I found the answers to these and more in “ Great by Choice “, a highly thought provoking business book by bestselling “ Good to Great ” author Jim Collins and his partner Morten T. An “extreme personal humility blended with intense professional will” which is captured by the adoption of a SMaC recipe.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

I think the other thing that sort of made me jump pretty early on the testing is we had been setting up this clinical trial with a partner for probably about six months, with a collaborator who had typically been incredibly responsive and would jump on the phone at a moment's notice. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting.

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Astranis to Bring High-Speed Internet to the Remotest Corners of the Earth

ReadWriteStart

To address this issue, space-based internet startup Astranis has partnered with satellite services provider Orbits Corp to launch and operate a dedicated satellite for the Philippines. The microGEO satellites, operating at geosynchronous orbit approximately 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface , offer distinct advantages.

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Episode 109: Surging Towards Growth with Greg Scully

Mike Michalowicz

He believes using the Surge strategy will help him since he is in a hyper niched business in Alaska and is struggling to grow. Greg and his wife Kim have been operating Magpie Clothing Exchange as a storefront in Palmer Alaska, and online worldwide since 2014. Corporate Partners. Could it be England? Could it be England?

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. Throughout the 36 hours, their ability to accurately derive range, bearing, elevation, and charge was unimpaired.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. the previous year. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based