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Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup

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Article first published as Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup on Technorati. Across Europe, historically solvent sovereign governments are suffering from an acute case of systemic deficits. Now, more than ever, government agencies in the US and abroad are lousy startup customers.

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CitySourced Merges With Rock Solid Technologies

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Los Angeles-based CitySourced , which develops mobile apps to help cities communicate with their constituents, has merged with Rock Solid Technologies , a provider of software to the government. CitySourced was founded in 2009, and is led by CEO Jason Kiesel. Kiesel becomes Chief Product Officer at Rock Solid as a result of the merger.

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Why Selling To The Government Can Destroy Your Startup

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Note: As a public service, I will happily offer the USPS a 15-minute course in “How To Use Google” at my special government rate of $150,000. The Downside Of Government Contracting. The abundance of incompetence and the utter lack of accountability are just two reasons why startups should avoid selling to the government.

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Medical Device Event

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 -- BIOCOM's Medical Device Event. Partnerships with Physicians: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You Government and public scrutiny of financial relationships between medical device companies (as well as other life sciences companies) and physicians has dramatically increased over the last few years.

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SmartDrive Wins LA Metro

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Metro's bus fleet since 2009. SmartDrive says it has more than 450 employees working on its driver and fleet safety products. Financial details of the win were not announced, however, SmartDrive said it will roll out across the LA Metro's entire entire fleet of 2,350 buses and 315 rail cars. READ MORE>>.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

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Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Because we're able to help people invset in digital channels online, and with mobile apps, and the rest, wer're attracting a whole new group of folks to their lending products.