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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. I work with clients from New York to Jerusalem, and get to work on the road, most recently beachside in Cuba and Brazil. Ethics and morality were only measured against regulations. Thanks to Chris Jarvis, JarvisTower ! #4-

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Out of the Crisis #17: Max Henderson on Covid Act Now, exponential growth, and how to help

Startup Lessons Learned

Max Henderson founded Covid Act Now to help with that process by making data-driven recommendations for sheltering in place (and later, for reopening) combined with public advocacy guidance to get local government to pay attention to the real facts about spread and safety. I mean, we saw New York was the last to act.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? At one point we had to turn off all the hosts in Cuba, because US companies weren't allowed to work with Cuban citizens. There haven't been really new upstarts or anything in that realm. This is Out Of the Crisis. Can we build better ones?

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