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3 Techniques To Help You Switch Industries

YoungUpstarts

My studies showed me the immensity of the global water waste problem, and as I delved further, I discovered that multiperson residency buildings (like hotels and apartments) were one of the biggest culprits of waste. That’s enough water to supply the states of New York and New Jersey. The source of this waste?

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. Deciens really cares about quality and consistency; we don’t care about velocity or scale. On Sushi and VC.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. The protagonist grows up in an upper middle class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. It globalizes. They struggle to maintain cost advantages. Om Malik was also on the panel. As was Shel Israel.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? They were coming from New Orleans, which is where I was born and raised.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. That was our incredible team of operators and partnership team members in the New York and New Jersey region.