Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. The impact of global instability. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

OVA has arranged screening events around the world. Our high profile speakers come from the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

He also worked in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and helped start a national health program in Haiti. I got back to my little village and there was the indigenous government office about two miles away. These kinds of direct relationships are … lost in our anonymous market place of the global food system. …

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s amazing that we’ve been able to provide careers for over 20 people in explaining a government benefit. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. 3) Global point of view and the value of diversity and difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert.

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