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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

We work with hotels, restaurants, schools, colleges, office complexes, cab operators to provide clean shared spaces like meeting rooms, lifts, toilets, cabs to their users. Climate change is a very real threat that we are all responsible for, that’s governments, businesses and people. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana.

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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, at last year’s Lean Startup conference we had speakers from a number other sectors, including government, transportation, education and public health. Could anything be less like a startup than the federal government? But, as he also said, “Projects within [government] often are.”

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. So how has the NYC tech entrepreneurship sector evolved? Google continued to grow its NYC presence during this time.

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[Interview] Nellie Mayshak, Founder Of Canaf Consulting Associates

YoungUpstarts

For the last 17 years, Nellie Mayshak has been traveling around the globe, undertaking one high profile initiative after another in an effort to help nations recover and reform rational systems of government and public service after extended periods of disruption, if not chaos.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing.