SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Last night I gave the kickoff talk to the West Michigan Policy Forum. I did my riff on Startup Communities and followed it up with a short Q&A on issues specific to Michigan’s entrepreneurial scene. The line I heard in the context of startup communities was “ the collision of the tucked and the untucked.”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

It honors the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit, cradle of many worldwide talents, including the multi platinum rapper and the multinational car brand. The clients, competitors, providers, intermediaries — distributors — and other public (such as the government or the press), are known as the company’s micro-moments.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The laws and regulations that govern healthcare are too numerous to list here. Michigan State University defines it this way: “Healthcare compliance is about a healthcare facility or organization maintaining compliance with a number of government agencies, acts, guidelines, and laws. What Is a Healthcare Compliance Officer?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

As much as I’d like Three Oaks, Michigan to be an innovation center, its got a long way to go. I’d personally like to see Silicon Valley open its doors to immigrants from distant lands like Michigan, Kentucky, Alabama — even Hoosiers from Indiana.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Miss New York, now Miss America, is a Syracuse native and University of Michigan graduate, her name is Nina Davuluri. I thought, so that’s who won the contest this year — can we please get to the baseball scores? It would appear others had a different reaction. She’s the first woman of Indian descent to win the contest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Still others, like Civilla , have worked hand-in-hand with government to drive change – in its case taking a human-centered approach to make access to social services in Michigan far simpler. And, to achieve sustainable impact at scale, government and policy often must play a crucial role.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

While many government agencies use Technology Readiness Levels to measure a projects technical maturity, there are no standards around Business Maturity Levels. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. And to our new teaching teams at University of Michigan and Georgia Tech – It’s your turn.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. Governments are also investing heavily in health care to combat chronic and critical illnesses.” Shortly after we moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore, we were fortunate to participate in Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Pitch Competition.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 7, 2018

In 2015, as a full-time mom, she took on the US government in her small town of Flint, Michigan. She explained why there has never been a more important moment to explore and understand Earth’s imperiled oceans. Speaker Lee-Anne Walters is an advocate for public health, using her voice to bring about change.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Writing you today from Three Oaks, Michigan, aka “Michiana” Steve Case’s article this morning in the Washington Post – Why innovation and start-ups are thriving in ‘flyover’ country – is spot on. Rural areas have been neglected by both commercial companies and the government.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

More and more governing bodies are slashing taboos and favoring the research that supports the medicinal benefits of cannabis. Many salons have been born as a result of the program, including Salon Bogar in New Hampshire, Bespoke Beauty Bar in Pennsylvania, and The Avenue Hair Studio & Spa in Michigan.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Greetings from gray and chilly Three Oaks, Michigan. government — it’s just not helpful to his cause at this point in time. ** Background information/FAQ Re: Dr. Alan Black ** . He has sent a letter to the UAE government expressing his remorse. As gloomy as it is, I’m grateful to be here and free.

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Civilian life was good, the government was paying my tuition and I got a college work/study job in the University of Michigan physics department. I got asked, “Would you like to work at the nuclear reactor?”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits. A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time for a change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Every government form in England seemed to ask questions about my parents. We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states. In American we have people like Charles Best. At least not in California.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 25, 2011

I listen to the radio when I’m in Michigan. Thank goodness because I’ve got no cable here and my web connection is pokey. It’s sort of a self-imposed news blackout. Radio is my one solid connection, so, I had NPR in the background yesterday when I heard a show that had Everything to do with [.].

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In April 2015, a mother in Flint, Michigan concerned about the city’s seemingly tainted water supply contacted Marc Edwards, an engineering professor who had previously helped expose a similar issue in Washington DC. Later that year, a Flint, Michigan pediatrician named Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha tested lead levels in local children.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Shout out to Michigan based XG Sciences , great to see what you’re up to. There are researchers in the USA fooling around with this stuff (notably Rice University, and to a lesser extent, IBM), but I don’t enough adventurous new start-ups yet. There are about 60 start-ups in the USA at this point, but folks, there should be 600.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Indian Government is focusing hard on education and here is some interesting news regarding their plans for providing $35 tablet computers to millions of students. “A computer with all normal functionalities at this price will not be sustainable unless it is subsidised by the government or the industry,&# he said.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I lived and studied in Japan for a bit and focused on Japan during my undergraduate years at Michigan. The American system of higher education has evolved piecemeal, with little central planning from the Federal Government. Like the United States, the Japanese imported a Prussian/German model of education during the Meiji restoration.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2022

NSN Lookup was a high-volume search phrase for National Stock Numbers used by Governments and there was a low difficulty score in achieving a high ranking in Google Search Results. The domain was chosen by analyzing the volume of search phrases for our industry in Google and in particular in the USA and UK, our primary markets.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2020

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. The Size of Your Business Might Matter. In Kansas , workers comp insurance is required for all businesses with employees and with gross payroll over $20,000 a year. The Type of Employees You Have Might Matter.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. I started Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC because I want to offer dog owners a safe and healthy treat option when it comes to their pups.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

Through the right data sharing, governance and public-private partnerships— we can escape healthcare’s historically unsuccessful “fix via mandate” approach, pivoting to a patient-centered, just, healthcare system.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 21, 2013

Why does it take a near death experience to wake some companies up? I guess there is an innovation equivalent to a drunk hitting bottom. If only the drunk could see what they are headed for before they land in the gutter. Case in point: General Motors.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push A new federal program that lets states give companies financial incentives for hiring jobless people hasnt gained traction, illustrating the complications of government attempts to tackle unemployment.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting. Sound familiar?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

This is the wrong time to bring down debt and government expenditure. Read: mortgages will not get cheaper, interest-wise, but the government is doing their best to ward off a real estate bubble. Robyn received her BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and MSc in IPE from the LSE. More Israelis need to work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

University of Michigan turned Giving Tuesday into Giving Blueday, and they used it to raise $5.5 It's very opaque in terms of how it's governed and how the algorithms work. million last year. In the old power model, we'd say, "Cease and desist.” You've changed our brand, you've altered the frame.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. Then the government says ‘hey, great news!

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Or one in which to get a government license to build a crypto trading platform, you need to pass background checks to make sure you haven’t been too disruptive on your way to building financial disruption. Or more simply put, one in which to make money, you have to already have it. Or these NYPD officers who took a knee.

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