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Turning the Unemployed Into Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Virgin Islands,” five states - Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon - already have active SEA programs. Big Government - or Small Business? There are, of course, those who say SEA won’t work, that it’s just another “big government” program. To entrepreneurial types this seems like a no-brainer.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Rent Seekers.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., the world’s largest country, Facebook).

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How to Start a Movement

Ben's Blog

Being a world-class inventor and entrepreneur, he felt that it was up to him to step up and solve the problem. Alex Torpey, a twenty-four-year-old with a breakthrough vision for using technology to improve government, ran for mayor of South Orange, New Jersey and defeated the far older incumbent.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. So you might as well be tired both as a mom and as an entrepreneur." But you can't be an entrepreneur and a parent at the same time, that just it's too difficult. So I've had two little boys and Kir has had three little girls. You're going to be tired anyway.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. It is the entrepreneurs that are singing their heart out, playing the instruments, et cetera.