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Governance in Healthcare: Best Practices after COVID-19

Board Effect

The current times are especially challenging for community-based boards that lack experience in operating during a global crisis. After partnering with Battelle Research Institute , they reduced COVID-19 test results from 14 days to 6 hours. . An excellent example of this is Atrium Health in North Carolina.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. Understand who has political and regulator influence and where they operate. PayPal – Dodging Bullets.

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Episode 5: Profit And Social Media Strategies With Cyndi Thomason And Brent Robinson

Mike Michalowicz

Cyndi understands what this special group of business leaders needs when it comes to marketing their business, managing their operations and accomplishing their goals. Cyndi understands what this special group of business leaders needs when it comes to marketing their business, managing their operations and accomplishing their goals.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. Understand who has political and regulator influence and where they operate. PayPal – Dodging Bullets.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. It can involve traveling hundreds of miles and can consume months of time and loads of money.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He got his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and BSc at Auburn University in 1980. Moderator: Joseph W.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.