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How To Raise Money Fast

Mike Michalowicz

From selling the stuff your business doesn’t need, to getting a government bailout (yeah I am talking to you General Motors), there are a mix of strategies to raising money fast. The government may issue a grant or your rich uncle. Thanks to Dahlia Roth of Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

This power is wielded through a combination of a country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I don’t believe in cold turkey transition. There’s a lot involved in the accounting side of your business and it’s not something that can be ignored and you cannot let your fear of math be the reason why you’re not on top of your finances in your business. You’ve got to be the payroll manager.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.

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Electing a Truly Independent Director

Austin Startup

TL;DR Nutshell : There are few governance-related decisions with a more outsized impact on a company’s power structure than the selection of an independent director. Pay close attention to how the behavioral incentives at stage (1) and (2) are very different, and prepare for it, so you don’t end up as the cooked turkey.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. More Stable Currency for Some Citizens of the World Some people don’t trust their governments with a national currency.