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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Energy efficiency is integral to a sustainable energy supply, reducing the new capacity needed to meet peak demand. For example, by making the energy efficiency and demand response prices more consistent with their reliability value, we will increase their interest in participating in ISO auctions and help create a more reliable grid.

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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

No physical demands. The truth, for those of you demanding your boss lets you do it, is that it’s one of the more intensely hard-to-manage business processes. Make them interact in their community (and benefit from their distance). For every desk-bound cubicle-dweller, the dream is to work from home. No need for pants.

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Three Lessons from the Coronavirus for Telecom Service Providers So Far

The Startup Magazine

The fear is that networks will not be able to cope , especially if other countries follow the examples set by the Czech Republic, Ireland and Italy, shutting schools and restricting movement. Because bandwidth is shared between users on fixed broadband and mobile networks, quality suffers during peak hours.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Sadly, many people in our society come from communities where they were never, or rarely, touched by their parents, family members, or friends or only experience touch through sex. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new. 29- Charge for my demanded free services.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.