crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Government releases open source code – [link]. Check out this photo of a volcano in Iceland—it’s crazy! I guess they liked the eye patch! – [link]. 8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know – [link]. Very cool – U.S. – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Its banks has Lehman-brother-esque collapse situation on their had and rather than letting the banks go backrupt or splitting the losses between the bond holders and the tax payers, the Irish government inexplicably agreed to guarantee all debt and restructure the banks at the expense of the Irish citizens.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

I continue to be stunned and amazed by both the behavior of our government around this and the behavior of “us” (companies and individuals) around their data given our government’s behavior. And – it’s not just the government, but mother nature and humans.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time. The Icelandic krona suffered a similar fate after that country’s financial collapse in 2008. Friedman, whom I quoted above, presciently linked the rise of e-cash with the central role of the internet in governing our lives.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Smart cities are a new approach to urban development. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March.

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