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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. The impact of global instability. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

OVA has arranged screening events around the world. Our high profile speakers come from the U.S.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

It’s amazing that we’ve been able to provide careers for over 20 people in explaining a government benefit. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. 3) Global point of view and the value of diversity and difference.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

He also worked in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and helped start a national health program in Haiti. I got back to my little village and there was the indigenous government office about two miles away. These kinds of direct relationships are … lost in our anonymous market place of the global food system. …

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert.