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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue. A huge example of this is playing out right now in California. Microgrids. Self-Reliance.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. Want to start up in France?

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

Also, high-tech high-growth startups have access to investment funding that would not be available to stable, established businesses that show only slow growth. Investors will look first to a summary , and then a pitch ; but if you get through that screening, they’ll want to see a business plan for the process of due diligence.

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

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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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. I am Eric Ries. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah. Alpha Lee : Yeah. I certainly.