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AEIA CERTIFICATION ’26 Pressing

Austin Tang — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:29:25 +0000

The video “Lawai International Center: A Place Remembered” provides a profound historical and spiritual context that aligns closely with the themes of peace, healing, and global unity found in your “Strength Through PEACE ’25 TOUR” document. AEIA CERTIFIED ‘26 Pressing

Sacred Soil of Lawai Valley.mp3Click2Hear

Below is an evaluation of the video’s content and how it can serve as a “Development Guide” for your project:

Historical & Spiritual Foundation
- Healing Roots: The video highlights the Lawai Valley on Kauai as a place of “forgiving waters” where Hawaiians originally built a heiau (temple) for healing [02:03]. This mirrors the document’s focus on moving away from a “War Economy” toward social
- The 88 Shrines: Built 100 years ago by Japanese immigrants, these shrines are a replica of the 1,000-mile Shikoku pilgrimage [01:46]. They represent the “Strength Through Peace” theme by showing how displaced people created a sanctuary of hope and spirit in a new land [04:46].
Key Narratives for Development
- The “Soil of Protection”: A powerful story features Grandma Nonaka, who took soil from the 88 shrines to protect her sons during WWII and the Korean War [03:35]. Their safe return and the subsequent return of the soil to the shrines [03:49] provides a moving visual and narrative metaphor for the protection found in peace rather than weaponry.
- Grassroots Restoration: The Lawai International Center (formed in 1990) is a non-denominational effort to restore these forgotten shrines [05:23]. This aligns with the document’s call to “reclaim democratic traditions” through community-led action.

Visual & Symbolic Synergy
- The Turtle Platform: The planned pagoda is shaped like a turtle, a symbol of the “bearer of life” [05:41]. This matches the “Axis of Hope” imagery in the Kucinich
- Diverse Voices: The video features Riley Lee (a non-Japanese Grandmaster of the Bamboo Flute) and Hawaiian elders [01:00, 06:08], illustrating the interconnectedness of all people—a core pillar of your 2025 Tour draft.
Integration Strategy

For your “Deep Dive PeaceCasts4Good,” this video serves as a perfect “Case Study in Peace.”

Actionable Insight: Use the Lawai International Center as a real-world example of the “Department of Peace” concept in action—where historical trauma (immigrant struggles/war) is converted into a “non-denominational cultural and healing center” [05:33].
Closing Sentiment: The video ends with the “Aloha” spirit being Hawaii’s gift to the New Millennium [06:16], which provides a strong, hopeful conclusion that matches the “Prayer for America” vision.

YouTube Link for Reference: Lawai International Center: A Place Remembered

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GoodNewsLetter: Earth Day was GREAT…OUR BEST EVER

Austin Tang — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:12:24 +0000

www.pausetheworldforpeace.org

Our 4.5 hour celebration to LOVE OUR MOTHER EARTH and to celebrate the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day with the founders, 400th Anniversary of New York with Borough President Mark Levine and Commissioner DCAS Molina & DOT Rodriguez and 40th Anniversary of Milestone Broadcast Corporation our for profit full service multimedia, multicultural corporation with Founder, Reverend Paul Sladkus All Faiths and Spiritual.

BOTTOM LINE IT TAKES MONEY, GREAT TALENT ( Austin put Run of Show link here) AND A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF PREPERATION WITH TALENTED HARD WORKING PEOPLE. Good News Corporation, our nonprofit, 501 C 3 Corporation, the producer, along with OMMM THANKS THEM ALL

Our caring sponsor donors were: Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Good News Corporation, OMMM, EarthDay.org, Valley Bank, Pep Realty/Tribeca Records Soho Johnny, Necromantic, Hugg a Planet, Jeff Gitterman Wealth Management, Swift Rails, Andronik Kardashev, NYC DCAS & DOT, American Oriental Arts Foundation, Blue Planet Alliance/Brooklyn Story Labs, Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE, POPNation, Peace Lights, NY City Parks, Times Square Alliance, SAPO, Mayor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, Hilton Garden Inn Times Square Central, UNDP, Equator Initiative, Earth Day Initiative NY, We Don’t Have Time, Unify, Hubcast, Extreme Hangout, We The Planet, Cosmic Rhapsody, Rove, The Arena, FiVth Experience, AY Young, My Green Pod, Belouga, Ocean Bottle, Hope Hydration, Herring Protectors and Good News Broadcast

WE ALSO THANK OUR FRIENDS, MEMBERS, VOLUNTEERS, AND AUDIENCE FOR BELIEVING IN US SINCE 2002.

The not so Good News is that Good News Corporation LOST MONEY..so if you or anyone you know can pitch in to help us keep these events going here is the link:

https://goodnewsplanet.com/pausetheworld/peace-day-donations/

Next event is the International Day of Peace and Climate Week Kick Off in Times Square on September 20 & 21,2025- JOIN US NOW…212 647 1212.

Peace, LOVE & HEALTH to you all.

Lastly, if you care about your money, please tune in to WOR 710 Radio on Sunday at 10:30 AM. Here you can listen and call in to Legal Expert and Elder Care Lawyer, 14 Year NYS Representative and Dr. Phil, ET, Good Morning America…Guest Lawyer, Ann-Margaret Carrozza, ESQ.

Ann is BRILLIANT, AND YOUR MONEY IS BRILLIANT, AND YOU ARE BRILLIANT IF YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO PROTECT IT.

Paul Sladkus is Ann’s Co-Host. Email me paul.sladkus1@gmail.com if you want me to ask her a question, or just call in (800-321-0710) and listen; it might be one of the most important programs in you and your family’s life.

Ann-Margaret Carrozza,

Asset Protection Lawyer,

STAY WELL

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LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: “All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal

With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth, For Information Contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual,

Founder, Good News Corporation 501 C 3 212 647 1212 paul.sladkus1@gmail.com and our Good News and Peace Worldwide Team who make our Peace Day 9/21 happen.

www.pausetheworldforpeace.org,www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast

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LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

PS – SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND MEMBERS: Looking for a vacation rental, SHORT TERM, in Montauk, this year and or entire summer in 2026, here is our listing https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/04/16/36000-2br-one-of-a-kind-summer-rental-opportunty-historic-montauk-manor-montauk/ call me. Paul 917 687 1790

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Valley Bank on Earth Day 2025

Austin Tang — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:29:37 +0000

Listen to “Valley Bank on Earth Day 2025” on Spreaker.

#valleybank #earthday

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GoodNewsLetter: HERE IS THE GROUND PLAN FOR EARTH DAY IN TIMES SQUARE APRIL 22 and * Montauk Manor Summer Rental…

Austin Tang — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:25:32 +0000

at http://goodnewsplanet.com/peacedayparty/peace-day-donations/

Dear Friends and Members,

Pray all is well.

It’s getting exciting:

1. Great sustainable corporations like Valley Bank have joined in and deserve to be. Along with Swift Rail, no emissions rail…

2. www.earthday.org has made our Times Square Broadcast a featured program for the Our Planet, Our Power Theme. Their Ambassador

3. OMMM our friends for many years continue to create a brilliant 2+ Hour Love our Mother Segment of the 4 ½ Hour Live Broadcast, including the UNDP and our Good Friend AY Young, Young Global Ambassador for the the UN SDG Goals, soon to break the World’s Record for Battery Powered Concerts. England’s own Jarvis Smith from Pea Pod fame will host.

4. Good News Corporation – With the Blessing of Borough President Mark Levine, NYC Commissionaires of Department of Transpiration, Citywide Administration Services & Faith-Based Office.

5. New York City, Department of Transportation will join Us https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/04/04/car-free-earth-day-april-26-2025-in-new-york-city/

STILL OPENING FOR LEAD SPONSOR AND NEW PARTNERS

Here is our Press Release

https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/04/02/55-years-of-earth-day/

Here is our New partners proposal

https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/04/02/new-partners-proposal-april-02-2025/

Here is our marketing deck

https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/04/02/2025-earth-water-peace-day-donor-presentation-2/

Please Donate here and possibly win a trip to the Montauk Manor: https://goodnewsplanet.com/pausetheworld/peace-day-donations/

Ann-Margaret Carrozza,

Asset Protection Lawyer,

STAY WELL

Please support our nonprofit, 501 C 3, Good News Corporation at http://goodnewsplanet.com/peacedayparty/peace-day-donations/

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: “All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal

With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth, For Information Contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual,

Founder, Good News Corporation 501 C 3 212 647 1212 paul.sladkus1@gmail.com and our Good News and Peace Worldwide Team who make our Peace Day 9/21 happen.

www.pausetheworldforpeace.org,www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast

Social Networks: www.Facebook.com/PaulSladkus, LinkedIn Paul Sladkus, Twitter/X Good News to Go, Instagram PausetheWorld

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

PS – SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND MEMBERS: Looking for a vacation rental, SHORT TERM, in Montauk, here is our listing https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/03/13/45000-2br-one-of-a-kind-summer-rental-opportunty-historic-montauk-manor-montauk/ call me. Paul 917 687 1790

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GoodNewsLetter: IT’S SHOW TIME FOR MOTHER EARTH IN TIMES SQUARE * Montauk Manor Summer Rental…

Austin Tang — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:12:02 +0000

Please support our nonprofit, 501 C 3, Good News Corporation at http://goodnewsplanet.com/peacedayparty/peace-day-donations/

Dear Friends and Members,

Pray all is well.

It’s a beautiful new day…. On Beautiful MOTHER EARTH… ENJOY EVERY MOMENT. This Thought for the Day could be everyone’s thought every day….

ALSO, please think if there is anyone who can donate and sponsor our Earth Day Event, LIVE in Times Square on April 22, 2025 who cares about MOTHER EARTH. We will be sharing the Good happening in the world for MOTHER EARTH.

We have partnered with www.earthday.org, OMMM, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Commissionaires from NYC Department of Transportation, Citywide Administrative Services, Faith-Based Executive Director, NY Parks, Times Square Alliance and many others, including Valley Bank and soon to release others. However, EARTH DAY CONCERT AND EXHIBITION IS A BIG EXPENSIVE LIVE CLEAN ENERGY BROADCAST IN TIMES SQUARE from 11:30 AM to 4 PM…lots of talent, speakers, exhibits and more… JOIN US.

Click Below to Read Our Most Recent Earth Day Press Release

55 years of Earth Day

Press Release

Please Donate here and possibly win a trip to the Montauk Manor: https://goodnewsplanet.com/pausetheworld/peace-day-donations/

Here is our NEW PARTNERS & DONOR PRESENTATION:

Click Below

New Partners Proposal-

February 18, 2025

2025 Earth & Water & Peace Day

Donor Presentation

Ann is BRILLIANT, AND YOUR MONEY IS BRILLIANT, AND YOU ARE BRILLIANT IF YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO PROTECT IT.

Ann-Margaret Carrozza,

Asset Protection Lawyer,

STAY WELL

Please support our nonprofit, 501 C 3, Good News Corporation at http://goodnewsplanet.com/peacedayparty/peace-day-donations/

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: “All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal

With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth, For Information Contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual,

Founder, Good News Corporation 501 C 3 212 647 1212 paul.sladkus1@gmail.com and our Good News and Peace Worldwide Team who make our Peace Day 9/21 happen.

www.pausetheworldforpeace.org,www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast

Social Networks: www.Facebook.com/PaulSladkus, LinkedIn Paul Sladkus, Twitter/X Good News to Go, Instagram PausetheWorld

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact:

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

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Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference Will See Annual Influx Of Media And Tech Moguls, But Economic Climate Freezes Major Dealmaking

Austin Tang — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:41:32 +0000

Idaho’s Friedman Memorial Airport, where execs from media, tech, sports and other sectors will arrive this week for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Allen & Co.’s annual Sun Valley Conference is known for drawing an A-list roster of execs from across the media and tech realms, with a generous sprinkling of sports commissioners, politicos and other notables added to the mix.

This year’s event, which gets under way Tuesday, looks to be no exception to the rule, though the atmosphere is likely to be subdued given the general M&A climate. (On the plus side: No N95 masks required in all that fresh air!) Media chiefs including Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav and Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and non-executive chair Shari Redstone are expected, as are Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

Members of the press making the trek to Idaho are kept at a distance from the goings-on inside the Sun Valley Resort, and event organizers frown on participants doing any media relations beyond waving at cameras and briefly chatting at the valet line. CNBC has typically established a remote set a safe distance away, drawing a few guests, though not to spill any details of what happened inside. This year’s labor situation — with the WGA already out on strike and SAG-AFTRA facing a deadline with the AMPTP on Wednesday — will only add to the incentive to hunker down out of the reach of zoom lenses.

Because of the sheer tonnage of potentates in attendance, and perhaps because of the clampdown on press access, the presumption is that dealmaking dominates attendee agendas. Reports about the annual confab often cite major tie-ups whose roots can be traced back to Sun Valley, though the list is getting a bit long in the tooth. The most often-cited roster includes Disney-Capital Cities/ABC (1995); Comcast-NBCUniversal (2009) and Jeff Bezos-Washington Post (2013).

Even when the economy is humming, the conference isn’t the hotbed of M&A transactions many press depictions make it out to be, though it does provide neutral and luxurious ground where conversations can begin. Still, plenty of massive deals — Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of most of 21st Century Fox, the $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery — have been negotiated without any river rafting being involved.

Whatever the topics of the day both inside the official sessions and on clandestine coffee runs and power walks, a few factors are casting a long shadow over the deal market. Inflation is the primary economic issue, while the regulatory environment and tighter oversight during the Biden Administration has also emerged as a disincentive.

According to PitchBook, venture capital deals amounted to only $85.6 million through the first half of 2023 and fell by half during the second quarter compared with levels of a year ago. The tally through the first two quarters was the lowest since 2014. Overall M&A deal volume and values have slumped to their lowest levels since the onset of Covid in 2020.

A recent report from PwC suggests that dealmaking could return in the second half of 2023 as long as sellers are realistic about pricing. Still, interest rates are making financing expensive, which is an obstacle to many transactions. “It’s a buyer’s market out there now, especially for cash-rich corporate acquirors and middle-market deals,” said Brian Levy, global deals industries leader and partner at PwC. “It’s essential for sellers to work harder to prepare for upcoming sales—or risk losing out.”

Traditional media companies are in the process of shaving more than $10 billion in costs from their respective operations and streamlining their structures. The prior embrace of direct-to-consumer streaming, which has burdened companies with costs and no clear path to consistent profitability, has given way to new attempts at austerity. The main question, in terms of M&A, is how would they be able to shed legacy assets? Paramount has been exploring the sale of BET Networks and Warner Bros Discovery reportedly had preliminary conversations about offloading CNN but it’s easier said than done.

Until recently, minority investors like private equity firms didn’t have an avenue to allow them to get a piece of film and TV assets. TPG attained 30% of DirecTV when AT&T spun out the pay TV operator in 2021. Last year, Nexstar Media Group used its own estimable balance sheet to move in on The CW, taking on the broadcast network’s debt in exchange for a 75% equity stake. What reshuffling could be next? Lionsgate has said by this fall it will separate its studio business from Starz and the streaming side of the company. Hasbro is in the process of shedding eOne and Paramount has re-engaged in the process of selling Simon & Schuster, with a year-end closing target.

One transaction with ramifications for many entertainment players isn’t technically in the realm of open-market M&A. Disney and Comcast are coming down the home stretch with their put-call negotiations for Hulu. Disney is expected to buy out Comcast’s remaining 33% stake in the streaming service early next year after both sides flirted earlier this year with the idea of Comcast being the buyer. The final price is to be determined, though the floor valuation has been set at $27.5 billion.

Craig Moffett, in a recent MoffettNathanson note about the Disney-Hulu dance, reflected the general sense of restlessness in the media business, which has reached the halfway point of a grueling year amid a lot of unanswered questions. In the case of Comcast, the company’s apparent decision not to go all-in on buying the two-thirds of Hulu it does not already own puts more focus on the company’s larger strategy. “If not Hulu, what then?” Moffett wondered. “Will they simply move on to something else to buy instead?”

As the Magic 8-Ball would say, signs point to yes.

Original site: https://deadline.com/2023/07/sun-valley-conference-media-tech-moguls-economic-climate-freezes-major-dealmaking-1235433357/

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o914 Concert – Irradiance – w/Daisy Jopling! Please Join Us!

Austin Tang — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:10:05 +0000

Please Join us for our final concert
of the 2022 season!

“Irradiance”
Featuring the Daisy Jopling Band,
Orchestra 914 and Local Students
May 22, 2022, 3pm

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater

Internationally acclaimed, classical/rock star violinist Daisy Jopling is thrilled to collaborate with Orchestra 914 and Hudson Valley students on a full orchestra mentorship show at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater called “Irradiance”. This eclectic show will feature local youth choirs singing music derived from the sacred tones of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, as well as a rock classical fusion and hits from the Daisy Jopling band orchestrated by Dean Fransen and and special guest performance by Frank Shiner. The show will feature a beautiful lighting design by Ro-z Edelston, and will be conducted by Dean Fransen and Kathleen Colletta.

tickets available here!

“Concerto Winners Concert”

Postponed
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have decided to postpone the Concerto Winners concert until the Fall of 2022. Please look out for our season release in September!

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Aligning the Dots: The new paradigm to grow any business

Austin Tang — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:55:19 +0000

Listen to “Aligning the Dots: The new paradigm to grow any business” on Spreaker.

A leading mind in business growth for 30 years in Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist, and Author Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D.

Aligning the Dots: The new paradigm to grow any business

Publisher: Onward Business Press Author Website: https://philippebouissou.com/

It’s eight o’clock Monday morning. What do you do to outpace the market and grow faster than your competitors? Aligning the Dots provides a clear answer to that deceptively simple question.

Although many how-to-grow business books have been published, none offer a pragmatic and reliable blueprint for top-line growth that is built on deep data analysis and a universal framework that leads to revealing insights. Without a clear roadmap to growth, a CEO’s demands for innovative product development, better marketing, and increased customer acquisition and conversion often fail to produce desired outcomes. An effective leader understands that without clear direction and guidance, teams will revert to business as usual and no amount of inspirational taglines will help the business grow faster.

Aligning the Dots introduces a new paradigm. It’s a universal, data-driven and prescriptive methodology, called A4 Precision Alignment, designed to accelerate any business. Based on the profound insight that the maximum top-line growth rate can only be achieved when a business and its target market are perfectly aligned, this methodology reveals how quantitative measurements of alignment form the base for the development a Growth Playbook.

That blueprint will guide any business to align the dots to outperform its target market and fly past its competitors.

In an interview on your program Dr. Philippe Bouissou can discuss:

1. There are 11,000 business books published every year. Why should we talk about your Book?

2. What results does this new paradigm to grow any business deliver?

3. Why did you choose to focus on the topic of growth?

4. What is unique about Aligning the Dots?

5. What are the traditional methods to grow a business?

6. Why do these traditional ways of growing a business rarely work?

7. What is counterintuitive about your new paradigm?

8. What is surprising about it?

9. How does it provoke new thoughts or bring “conventional wisdom” into question?

10. How did you come up with this new idea?

11. What in your background was critical to invent this new paradigm?

12. Does this new methodology apply to any business?

13. Can you give an example of a bad and a good alignment?

14. Who is the audience for this book?

15. How does the COVID19 pandemic affect the teachings in this system?

Aligning the Dots offers a new systematic methodology for optimizing resource allocation towards long-

term profitable growth. Philippe Bouissou’s engaging style uses a combination of personal anecdotes,

scientific analogies, and relevant case studies to convey his message of alignment. While the target

audience cuts across the broad business community, I find the methodology to be most directly relevant

to young technology startups who have a very low margin for error in their business model.

—Eric Benhamou Founder and General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures and Former Chairman and CEO of 3Com

Every executive intuitively knows the importance of aligning what a company sells with what its customers

want, but few executives actually know how to do it right. In his smart, new book—Aligning the Dots—

business growth expert Philippe Bouissou presents a simple, but powerful framework for building

alignment along four critical business axes. No matter what size your business or what industry you’re in,

Aligning the Dots is the playbook you need to spark revenue growth right now — and well into the future.

—Peter Economy The Leadership Guy, Inc. Magazine

Aligning the Dots offers a precise, logical way to understand how the fundamental drivers of business

work, and how to align your company with them for long-term success. It’s the rare book that combines a

comprehensive science of how business works with dozens of practical tips that any leader can apply.

—Chris Yeh Co-author with Reid Hoffman of Blitzscaling

I’ve seen so many businesses struggle as the vision and expectations of entrepreneurs and company operators

are out of sync with the customer or the marketplace. Aligning the Dots provides an articulate, pragmatic,

and innovative framework for solving these misalignments. It is a resource that can and should be

referenced repeatedly to help pressure test strategy and plans for the competitive edge that derives from precision alignment.

—Lori Bush Former President and CEO, Rodan + Fields

Genius often creates out-of-the-box thinking. Aligning the Dots makes you think differently and that makes

it powerful. Any business should understand and use these concepts.

—Nolan Bushnell CEO of X2 Games Founder and former CEO of Atari and Chuck E Cheese!

Category: Business

Publisher: Onward Business Press

Page count: 240 (full-color)

ISBN: 9781734208702

Price: $27.95

Formats: Hardcover, e-book

About the Author:

Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. He is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a firm he co-founded focused on top-line acceleration. He started his career as the founder and CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was acquired by Matra. He then was Senior Vice President at Matra Hachette Multimedia, Inc., where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company before joining Apple as Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce Group, where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million.

After Apple, Bouissou became a venture capitalist and successfully invested $43 million and generated double-digit cash-on-cash IRR. For over half a decade, Bouissou co-managed the Milestone Group, a management consulting firm serving over 220 clients. During his career, Bouissou led over 120 management-consulting projects with companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, and Verisign and served on the board of directors of 20 companies, including ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Silicon Valley, where he currently serves.

Bouissou graduated from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Physics, and a Ph.D. in non-linear physics and chaos theory.

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Concerned Citizen B. Tina Ebey shares her solutions for the Fires in California.

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:56:51 +0000

http://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/tina_ebey_1.mp3
Tina Ebey share many thoughts for a bill to help deal with the fire problem in California.

ORIGIN of the Bill:

1. B. Tina Ebey – citizen of San Jose, California

2. To my knowledge no similar bill has been introduced in any previous session.

1. PROPOSAL SUMMARY.

The proposal will authorize bonds to fund live feed satellite coverage into every fire station in the state to cut the response time of our honorable firefighters and increase speed and accuracy of advance warning to affected citizens.

2. PROBLEM.

At present most firefighters are on call. Based on research, firefighters too frequently lack access to the latest data regarding fire movements. This results in unnecessary delays for the firefighters to reach critical areas. It also results in firefighters not being able to alert citizens in a timely and efficient manner.

3. SOLUTION.

This proposal addresses the need for immediate live feed coverage into every station so that the firemen can carefully monitor their geographic area. Surveillance will include computer signaling of potential trouble spots to be investigated. In response multiple approaches can be initiated including surveillance drones, alerts through smartphone apps or live crews for additional protection.

4. COST.

TBD

5. ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT.

Firefighters

Silicon Valley Technology Leaders

US Government Weather Satellites

Citizens

Medical Professionals

Teachers

6. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT.

Global warming is increasing the potential for longer, hotter summers, droughts and more fires in California, putting firefighters and citizens at greater risk. The proposal would:

1. Employ use of existing technology used to protect our State, the people and the firefighters.

2. Enhance the effectiveness of current methods of fighting fires with comprehensive live feed coverage.

3. Gives the firefighters the ability to respond more efficiently by being deployed to target an fight fires in their geographic area.

7. ORGANIZATIONAL OPPOSITION.

None at present.

8. ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION.

1. We have enough fire protection in the State.

2. The State can not afford any more expenditures.

3. Fires have become a fire hazard we have to learn to live with.

9. BACKGROUND INFORMATION.

Notes enclosed below.

10. CONTACT.

B. Tina Ebey

408-216-0278 home office

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China VC Reaches For Ceiling

admin — Mon, 07 May 2018 15:44:51 +0000

More China funds are popping up as venture capital tilts away from the Silicon Valley epicenter and toward emerging Chinese tech startups.
Sinovation Ventures debuted a $500 million fourth fund while Sky9 Capital launched a $200 million third fund. Sinovation Ventures, led by AI guru and former Google China executive Kai-Fu Lee, is investing in artificial intelligence, robotics and education startups. Sky9 Capital, headed up former Lightspeed China founder Ron Cao, focuses on backing early-stage Chinese companies in the Internet, enterprise and deep tech sectors.
In the wings is a new venture fund from China Creation Ventures, a spin-out by the former team of Kleiner Perkins China and led by founding managing partner Wei Zhou. Additionally, Sequoia Capital China is raising a $550 million China venture fund, its seventh, and a $150 million seed fund for China, its first.
Wonder if it’s too much capital chasing China startups?
Read Forbes: China venture ceiling

NEW FUNDINGS
Full Truck Alliance Group, China’s biggest app for Uber-like truck services, reportedly raised $1.9 billion in funding to fuel its expansion at a valuation of $6.5 billion with backers including SoftBank Vision Fund, China Reform Fund, GSR Ventures and Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG. Existing investors Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sequoia Capital also were involved in the round.
Keep on truckin.

Chinese biotech startup NuProbe has bagged $11 million in a Series A round co-led by Sequoia Capital China and hedge fund Serica Partners, plus corporate strategic investor WuXi AppTec.

Silicon chipmaker Innovium raised $77 million in a Series D funding from veteran chip investor Walden International.

Want to know how competitive the cryptocurrency market is for venture capital funding? Consider that Sequoia China sued the founder of crypto trading exchange Binance for failing to honor an exclusivity agreement during negotiations, and sought an injunction against the founder, well-known as CZ, from negotiating with other investors. Sequoia had offered Binance a term sheet for a $9.5 million, Series A investment for a 12% stake in Binance. A Hong Kong court recently struck down the injunction.

IPOs
Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is preparing for an IPO as early as this year at a valuation of $70 billion to $80 billion, up from its most recent venture funding valuation of $57.6 billion. Didi could beat Uber to the public markets.

NOTEWORTHY
Image recognition has caught on in China in a big way. Beijing airport security checks scan your passport and face at the same time before sliding your luggage through. And parking garages are scanning license plates on cars to whisk drivers through the toll gate. No more reaching for paper tickets out the car window.

Anyone that believes that Apple will discontinue the iPhone X or that iPhone sales are down has not been to China. If anything Apple will make an X+ and make it bigger and more expensive. iPhone shipments to China were up 32% in Q1 2018, and Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market rose to 14.3% from 10% a year ago.

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