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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. He made some mistakes on his immigration paperwork so he was forced to leave the country for 8 months. Her response?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We wanted to show that if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs could operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. If you can’t see the Neurosmart slides, click here.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. My boss told me to look at the growth rate average over the past 3 years an increase it by 2% because mobile penetration is increasing.&# There you go. As scientific as that. I called another agency. They were more scientific.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics.

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Rusty Tweed Explores How Sustainability is Impacting the Construction Industry

The Startup Magazine

According to the World Green Building Council (WGBC), the following findings support a case for green building: Lower operating cost – the construction of green buildings can help building owners and occupiers save money thanks to efficient energy and water usage. The US is currently home to more than 9,000 solar energy companies.

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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

They require the most money to operate and have to fill out the most complicated forms to get licensed. There are start-ups operating in each of these three spaces, but there aren’t any preeminent industry disruptors in insurance – no Google, Uber or Airbnb – yet. My hope is that the answer is you. She’s based in L.A.,

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Yet in our case the product, the machine as delivered from engineering, was a blank, featureless computer with just an operating system and compilers. In most other companies a product-marketing department was responsible for the pricing, positioning and promotion of the product.

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