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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). The same was true for PR. I wasn’t surprised. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. IPOs dried up.

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Quantum Computing – An Update

Steve Blank

The consortium was awarded $127m from the Federal and State Governments – $40.5 has a National Quantum Initiative (NQI) to coordinate quantum activities across the entire government see here.) government has declared quantum of national interest. So why all the investment in this area? FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out.

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The End of Innocence

Steve Blank

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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Top 5 Innovative Business Ideas For Civil Engineers

YoungUpstarts

You just need to focus on the quality work along with a good sense of networking skills to build a PR and you will have good enough capacity to be the owner of a successful construction company. While construction, ministries, and the government have a set plan of safety protocols that must be followed by the company at all points.

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

missusP : Christine Perkett, CEO of PerkettPR shares her view as the head honcho of one of tech’s best PR companies. Marketing & PR. Good marketers know Twitter is not to be ignored, and it’s clear that these marketing and PR CEOs have embraced the service.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy.