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The Board Operating System

Feld Thoughts

In the comments to my post yesterday titled The Religion of Silicon Valley , Rosey commented that the choice of metaphor could be “ operating system ” instead of religion. Can you, for example, take the SV’s operating system and drag and drop it into Boulder or Kansas City?

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I had my own company operating under the name of Kamal and Shashi Sharma Ltd. So, I ended up naming the business after the place where it was born — Kansas City, Kansas. Thanks to Tim Sims, Kansas-Sleep ! #25- After getting British Citizenship in 2017, I decided it was time for me to legalise my English name.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Both events drew small and large investors from all over the country.

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How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours

ReadWriteStart

The master of ceremonies for the weekend was Steve Chau, who hails from Kansas City (about four hours away by car) and who has run several weekends in other places for the past four years. Now is a full-time employee that works for the operation, but that was a relatively recent circumstance: before he was hired, he volunteered his time.

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Why There’s A Startup Boom In The US Midwest

The Startup Magazine

Pittsburgh has Duololingo, Columbia, MO has Equipment share, Madison has fetch Rewards, and Kansas City has Backlot Cars. They understand that with the emergence of remote work, they can compete globally for talent, rather than restricting their hiring to their operational geography. . billion in the 2018-2019 period to $10.1

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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

In addition, we consult visionaries achieve clarity by creating vision, mission values, 5-year and 10-year business plans, processes and operational manuals and implement them even on a remote level. Another example is the City Table Leadership website that is created for the city of Kansas.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Social Enterprise UK .