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Victor Restis – How COVID-19 Has Affected the Global Shipping Industry

The Startup Magazine

What we’ve experienced while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic has me thinking about the worldwide supply chain network and our absolute ignorance in not addressing the detrimental, looming effects of global climate change. states that the spread of the virus globally affected both the markets and vessel operations significantly.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Global Hiring Made Easy

Transformify

Global hiring should be easy - companies get access to the right people regardless of the location and people get jobs no matter of their situation. Greece followed. We removed them and created something simple - the Transformify global outsorcing platform. We love it simple. The earthquacke distroyed lives and homes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Today Stathis Katinas from Greece, pitched CarRentalBookers.com , a business he founded with his partner Tristan Mcvean. Today's discussion was about how to generate additional distribution and acquire traffic.

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The Socialist Republic of Twitter

Diego Basch

Because we live in a world where the distribution of income is highly skewed, a small number of users have most of the dinero. In other words, my dear readers, Twitter (or Facebook, for that matter) is a socialized service provided globally by a corporation. The only known way to accomplish this is by monetizing the service with ads.

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