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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." My grandparents were forced from Russia. That's just something every small business with under 500 employees needs to take advantage of. Start-ups don't always interact with the government.

Dallas 68
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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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7 Ways Startups Get Tagged as Too Risky by Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

Russia 243
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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Gust

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

Russia 186
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Perceived Risk Can Make Your Startup Unfundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

Startup 224
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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

Ukraine 326