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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. He didn’t believe that women should be in business.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role. The goal is to reduce China’s dependence on foreign technology and promote Chinese high-tech companies globally. We could turn to Intel to restart their foundry business or turn to Samsung or even Global Foundries.

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Economics In Asia In The Trump Era

YoungUpstarts

This week, Trump slapped tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines on Monday in his first major move to level a global playing field. billion) globally from January through November 2017, according to customs data. Collectively, they account for about a sixth of global trade.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. We came out of Vietnam.

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17 Entrepreneurs Celebrate Summer Business Accomplishments

Hearpreneur

My story is the story about women’s independence in Vietnam and the greeting cards that will promote it: I am very happy to announce that we just launched Popwish. I was working with only my savings for a budget and still working full-time as a global director. We are looking forward to a great year. 5 – New Business.

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The Disease President

Reid Hoffman

battle deaths from World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When America needed consistent, coherent leadership to catalyze a nationwide unified response, the Disease President gave us discord, disinformation , and advice about one-minute disinfectant injections. In less than six months, U.S.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Yet while the U.S. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days.