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Episode 5 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Pete Newell, John Kuhn, Matt Weingart, Takashi Tsutsmi and Masato Iino

Steve Blank

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. During his military career he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. I started Red Sea Diving College because I saw the chance to build a business that would be a pioneer in Egypt. The name is Oh Yeah Beats and each client (big or small) can too chant Oh Yeah.

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Please Help My Friend Colin Recover His Kidnapped Children #noorramsay

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His wife created forged passports in a fake name and kidnapped his two children by illegally flying back to Cairo on Egypt Air. Colin has now won visitation rights in an Egyptian court, but Mirvat didn’t show up at the legally required meeting day / time in Egypt. Mirvat’s family is well connected in Egypt.

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You see the big ones named, the hidden mysterious ones, you can unmask using a mouse hover. It would be nice to see all the sites named, but it is kind of nice that it forces you to internalize the big ones, likely where you can have the biggest impact, and then look at the small ones. China, South Africa, Egypt.

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