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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

One such company is Austin-based start-up Interplay Learning , the leading global provider of online and VR training for the essential skilled trades?—?covering This also came at a time of a growing skills gap with not enough skilled trades specialists to meet the huge demand, despite high unemployment levels due to the pandemic.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. I had a strong desire to create a global business that would serve customers across the world and give me the opportunity to work with teams across geographies. Photo Credit: Luly B.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida. This is a global site.

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[Interview] Joan Kuhl, Author Of ‘Dig Your Heels In: Navigate Corporate BS And Build The Company You Deserve’

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, I founded Why Millennials Matter, a research and consulting agency that helps companies understand, engage, and retain the next generation of global workers and consumers. What in your professional background led you to become a champion for women?

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

That last point demands more attention, as it’s one of the biggest sources of risk and missed opportunities in smart cities projects. Cary, North Carolina surveys its residents every other year about various topics and the so-called barriers to citizen involvement rarely change. Stay tuned.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?