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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

Women Entrepreneurs Can

You can also turn off devices, like TVs and computers, that remain in standby mode using a trickle of power that can account for 5%-10% of your home’s energy use and cost you $100 a year or more. State and local governments and utility companies offer various energy efficiency programs that can help you save on your energy bills.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Ensure money is transferred to low cost tax markets as a high cost tax market expense. This is not done to save on production costs, but to justify the location of IP assets in these low tax regimes.

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

Their research and conversations took place all around the world and included everyone from the heads of intelligence agencies in Washington to frontline health workers in the Netherlands. What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.