"The foreign partner would also be enabled to manufacture and ship the product to orders for the Hawaii partner to global markets at a much lower cost, and therefore greater profitability, than from the U.S."
Is your recommendation primarily for ha…
The 19th Kipapa i ke Ala Lecture entitled, "Venture Capital in Hawaii: A New Era," will feature Karl Fooks. Karl is the president of the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation, an agency of the state of Hawaii that partners with private sector inv…
Laurence,
While I agree with you that students with higher degree of parental involvement do better, I think your point about poor vs rich is the more critical factor.
The blunt reality is that children from rich families go to much better college…
Good find. Key quote:
"The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more tailored to individual students than is possible in classrooms."
To Brendan's point, I do accept the risk of being limited/co…
Is there any interest in doing home schooling? Given that this is a technology community and given the tremendous advances being made in on-line education, it would seem home schooling would be a promising approach to reduce the costs and shortcomin…
I agree about the additional time and expense of meeting with people outside of Hawaii.
For all the criticisms the government receives, I think the traveling issue has a far greater impact and is obviously not caused by the government.
Any technol…
Jason Lau correctly pointed out that filing an intent to veto doesn't guarantee a veto. It buys the Governor another couple weeks to decide (request info, hold focus groups, etc.)
Thanks a lot for the suggestion...looks and sounds really interesting. I'll have our gurus look into it. Thats really cool you've already used it too. Lets chat about your project next meetup...would be interesting to hear about some of the hurdles you had to overcome.
You going to the geeknick on Sunday? Maybe I'll see you there.