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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. Then the government says ‘hey, great news! Looking at an independent studies evaluation of government funded retraining programs shows that their efficacy rate tends to be between 0 and 15%.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Wired did that conversion in a “mere” 18 months. Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit). It never works like that. Reddit took 18 months to get the “number of likes” to work at scale. Risk-mitigation.

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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

The Hong Kong government was out in full force at the event as well, sharing their challenges in putting together a case for Cloud adoption by the government. Our CloudSSL is an SSL distribution service available via API and is designed specifically to help web services operate securely in the Cloud.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. In a world where everyone and their brother is "joining the conversation" (oops, I use that phrase constantly!), Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo.

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The Wealth Transfer Movement: An Opportunity to Reimagine Nonprofit Governance

Board Effect

With philanthropic giving at an all-time high, it’s generating a new sense of freedom for nonprofits, allowing them to reimagine governance like never before. In what’s perhaps the largest distribution of donations by anyone in a single year, Scott and Jewett have donated $2.7 Nonprofits: Ready, Set, Reimagine Governance.

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The Logistics Industry is Taking A Turn For The Electric

YoungUpstarts

As was reported by the Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc , 82 percent of companies in the S&P (meaning some of the world’s top producing companies) have now implemented the publication of corporate sustainability reports into their practices. will save about $2,000 in operating costs for every 10,000 miles driven.”

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Turk was among the first platforms to truly leverage the power of a distributed workforce and to demonstrate that providers around the world would happily participate in such a model. These PPC (pay-per-click) experts are only paid if the terms they contribute lead to clicks and conversions for the advertiser’s site or service. .