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Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs

Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs

By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 1, 2011

That’s the title of a report by the  Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the UK House of Commons. It says “The Government’s over-reliance on large contractors for its IT needs combined with a lack of in-house skills is a “recipe for rip-offs”. The committee found that as a result IT procurement too often resulted […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged government, Public Administration Select Committee, rip-off, UK

How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur

How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur

By Zoli Erdos on April 9, 2010

I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes?  To what?  I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch!  Lowering?  And then it’s still $1,000?  […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BAE, Bay Area Workshop, Business plan, education, Entrepreneurship, meetups, Networking, newtech, rip-off, sfbeta, startups, SVASE, workshop

Giving disruptors a bad name

By Vinnie Mirchandani on January 4, 2010

This blog celebrates disruptors and on a couple of occasions in the past I have mentioned Ryanair as one. Now I regret having done so. They developed an operationally efficient airline like Southwest and passed along savings to consumers. But…

Posted in Business | Tagged Airline, Aviation, rip-off, Ryanair, Transportation and Logistics

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