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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. After a quarter-century in government – serving with the National Security Council, the Senate Armed Services Committee and now State – Blinken says Washington can no longer afford to pretend it can solve such complex problems alone.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. After a quarter-century in government – serving with the National Security Council, the Senate Armed Services Committee and now State – Blinken says Washington can no longer afford to pretend it can solve such complex problems alone.

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Inventing Tomorrow’s Jobs – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

If only we have a way to capture it, store it and distribute it… Yes. We might just have arrived upon some dumb luck with the COVID crisis as Governments the world over may have to start investing in large infrastructure projects to the economic wheels turning. You read that right. That is 160,000 Terawatt hours of energy.

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

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. Less is more.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Some pay next to nothing in Australia, but you can bet all of them pay less than you and me. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. tax on $10 of revenue.

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Why our small businesses are a BIG deal

NZ Entrepreneur

While we often hear statistics asserting New Zealand as a nation of small businesses, such as 97% of businesses in New Zealand having less than 20 employees (which is the current definition of a small business in New Zealand and Australia), these numbers are not the reason why small businesses are important in and of themselves.