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The World’s Best Telecommunications Companies For Investors

YoungUpstarts

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. It has expanded its wings even in internet connection where it has over 34,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. It is obvious that the telecommunication industry is not becoming extinct anytime soon.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. I was still using a modem to connect to the internet and I can remember that it took me 40 minutes to send out a 2 mb document! Photo Credit: Rob Kessler. Thanks to Anita Huisman, Universal Translation Services ! #13-

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

After much consideration, I landed on Two Rivers – I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, the city of the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. We workshopped a lot of names, polled friends, and searched the internet. Does our name clearly align with our mission? In our case, we landed back on the very first name we had thought of.

Naming 101
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The mindset of a good investor

The Equity Kicker

They drew on a contest run by American spies in the wake of the Iraq debacle: Begun in 2011, it posed hundreds of geopolitical questions (“Will Saudi Arabia agree to OPEC production cuts in November 2014?” By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, which details the characteristics of people who are good at predicting the future.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. That’s one reason why it can be hard for small growing companies to compete for top talent with larger companies’ HR departments. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Newell ran the U.S.

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Unlocking Your Unfair Advantage: How Your Unique Story Powers Your Entrepreneurial Success

Duct Tape Marketing

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose was, John (05:27): Yeah, of course, it's so cliche now, but I like to tell even 30 year olds about a dialup internet and things of that nature. Can you imagine that now it would take 10 minutes and we had to take turns. Who could use it? So that was huge for me.