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The Impact of Community

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They're hard to forget your last name. But then when I was eight or nine years old, the Gulf Warhead, I was born in Kuwait and security had lapsed, came together to rescue the country. My mom made it weird for me growing up by putting an E in my name, it's Lloyed, but she put an E in there and I was bullied as a kid a lot.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Orazure Hand Roasted Coffee

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The name is derived from the Latin words “hora” meaning hour and “azura,” meaning blue. I was on a business trip and had just landed in Kuwait. I was standing in front of a sign that read “Kuwait International Airport,” shaking my head in disbelief.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

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and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) REF expanded its operations to include forward teams in Kuwait and Iraq to provide technology to fill capability gaps and to counter the highest priority threats. The Cold War. During the Cold War the U.S.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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You can change your name if you want to be called something else in the app. Below your name (and that of others) is a number and it took me for freaking ever to figure out WTF this was. And of course you can add by user name (mine is msuster). I just met an entrepreneur in Kuwait and we’re now connected on email.

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

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Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. My family's name isn't on any buildings and they didn't have the money to fund my investments, so I felt like I didn't have help to break into my industry. And, of course, it was cool having a strong military.

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