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

Hearpreneur

We work with hotels, restaurants, schools, colleges, office complexes, cab operators to provide clean shared spaces like meeting rooms, lifts, toilets, cabs to their users. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. ZeroVir offers automated, contact-less sanitization for B2B enterprise customers using UltraViolet light & IoT modules.

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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

She is working toward affordable waste removal in Kumasi, Ghana, a city of 2.5 And once IDEO had the units, they also prototyped a system of service operators to empty them. He sold out of machines before even getting Series A funding. You can MVP just about anything, as we learned from Jocelyn Wyatt of IDEO.org.

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NYC 3.0

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I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. Google continued to grow its NYC presence during this time. the list goes on and on.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

And now, 8 years later, Fantastic Services has become a multi-national, multi-operational company working in the UK, Australia, and the US. I saw old operating and fundraising habits that hurt leagues and cut kids off from access to sports. We are the one-stop-shop for every home’s needs. 13- Out of discouragement. So, that’s it!

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[Interview] Nellie Mayshak, Founder Of Canaf Consulting Associates

YoungUpstarts

Nellie Mayshak: The public and private sectors tend to operate as separate spheres in many less developed countries. The public sector can act in the form of an over-extended government that operates to suppress the private sector. Nellie Mayshak: There are many lessons.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. We found each other. I was like, "I have no idea." And he told me.