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Five Reasons Every CEO Should Give Back On Giving Tuesday And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

While he was raised in war-torn Iran, he moved to America with a dream and vision, becoming an American citizen and a successful business owner. The Dastmalchi company has a portfolio of health, beauty, and lifestyle brands, and works with global companies to provide worldwide distribution. Based in Newport Beach, Calif.,

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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. The threat is here; it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This post offers a few days’ worth of thinking about what I saw. (If

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

2600 weighs in with a deliciously ironic offer to help Sony get distribution for The Interview. He’s decided that the North Korea hack on Sony Pictures was not an act of war but is now trying to decide if it’s terrorism so he can put North Korea on the terrorism sponsors list to join Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. of 3,981 VC funds below $2b in size returned at least 2X Distributions to Paid-In Capital (2X) or more. All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male.

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“What Unites Us” —Important Lessons from @danrather at the #UpfrontSummit

Both Sides of the Table

He was a pioneer in reporting the civil rights struggle, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, The Gulf War and so many more historical moments in our history. We spoke about the consolidation of media platforms “90% of media distribution is controlled by just 6 international business entities.”

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. What does that mean?

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

Setting up a publishing company to internationally distribute the book, initially in 3-4 languages. In three years’ time, I hope to have grown my hostel chain to three locations and to have expanded my tour company to both Iran and Kyrgzstan. The book is almost done, and there are two more BHAG’s on my hit list… 1.