Yair Shalev Seattle Aquarium!!
This blog is running by me, Yair Shalev. Everyday I share my love about Seattle, WA at my blog. In previous post I explained Yair Shalev Museum. Hopefully you enjoyed this. Today blog entry outlines Seattle Aquarium opened first time on May 20, 1977.
The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium opened in 1977 and located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.The aquarium promotes marine conservation and helps over 800,000 visitors each year, including 50,000 students, understand of their impact on marine life. It also conducts research on marine life. An 18,000-square-foot expansion that opened in June 2007 includes a new 2,625-square-foot gift store and café, as well as two new major exhibits: Window on Washington Waters and Crashing Waves.
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The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium opened in 1977 and located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.The aquarium promotes marine conservation and helps over 800,000 visitors each year, including 50,000 students, understand of their impact on marine life. It also conducts research on marine life. An 18,000-square-foot expansion that opened in June 2007 includes a new 2,625-square-foot gift store and café, as well as two new major exhibits: Window on Washington Waters and Crashing Waves.
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Yair Shalev Pine Tar:
In what has come to be known as “the Pine Tar Incident”, umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar (more than 18 inches up the handle) on third baseman George Brett’s bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5–4 in the top of the 9th.
After Yankee Manager Billy Martin came out of the dugout to talk to home plate umpire Tim McClelland, McClelland and the other umpires mulled over the bat (measuring it over home plate, touching it, etc.). McClelland then pointed to Brett in the dugout and then gave the out sign, thereby disallowing the home run. George Brett then stormed out of the dugout, angry and hysterical. McClelland ejected Brett. The homer was later reinstated by the AL President and the Royals went on to win after the game was resumed several weeks later. “The Pine Tar Incident” has now become part of baseball lore.
After Yankee Manager Billy Martin came out of the dugout to talk to home plate umpire Tim McClelland, McClelland and the other umpires mulled over the bat (measuring it over home plate, touching it, etc.). McClelland then pointed to Brett in the dugout and then gave the out sign, thereby disallowing the home run. George Brett then stormed out of the dugout, angry and hysterical. McClelland ejected Brett. The homer was later reinstated by the AL President and the Royals went on to win after the game was resumed several weeks later. “The Pine Tar Incident” has now become part of baseball lore.
Yair Shalev Woodland Zoo:
This blog by me, Yair Shalev, as you all know already, chronicles my love of my hometown, Seattle, WA. In particular, this entry deals with the Woodland Park Zoo.
I visited the zoo recently and saw the most amazing animals.
Here is the mission statement of the zoo:
Woodland Park Zoo saves animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences, inspiring people to learn, care and act.
For more than 110 years, Woodland Park Zoo has been a cherished community resource and a unique urban oasis. Generations of Puget Sound families have come to the zoo to marvel at the animals and be inspired by the peaceful and beautiful surroundings.
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I visited the zoo recently and saw the most amazing animals.
Here is the mission statement of the zoo:
Woodland Park Zoo saves animals and their habitats through conservation leadership and engaging experiences, inspiring people to learn, care and act.
For more than 110 years, Woodland Park Zoo has been a cherished community resource and a unique urban oasis. Generations of Puget Sound families have come to the zoo to marvel at the animals and be inspired by the peaceful and beautiful surroundings.
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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook:
Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so?
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Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. They grow into companies that define an industry and create jobs. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.
With 317 million people the U.S. has a large enough market that most U.S. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. Outside the U.S. a rough rule of thumb for scale is a local population greater than 100 million (and language, cultural and/or regulatory barriers to delay or keep out U.S. entrants.) China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. (Obviously this depends on industry and application.) However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one.
Regional Ecosystems
I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne.
Bay of Fires Tasmania
One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. So they put together a sports technology ecosystem – gathering sports startups in apparel and footwear, protective wear, equipment, nutrition, wearable devices, data and video analytics, and web and mobile solutions and brought them together with investors, retailers and distributors, universities, research centers and national sporting organizations.
Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.
However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale.
The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them.
It doesn’t.
Born Global or Die Local
The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big.
Instead of beginning with just a focus on Australia, these startups needed to use the business model canvas and articulate which of their hypotheses should be tested locally and what would require getting on an airplane to test by watching someone’s pupils dilate face-to-face.
For example, one of the critical business model hypotheses they could test locally is Product/Market fit – the connection between their Value Proposition (what product or service they were building) and the Customer Segment (who they were building it for.)
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Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. They grow into companies that define an industry and create jobs. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.
With 317 million people the U.S. has a large enough market that most U.S. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. Outside the U.S. a rough rule of thumb for scale is a local population greater than 100 million (and language, cultural and/or regulatory barriers to delay or keep out U.S. entrants.) China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. (Obviously this depends on industry and application.) However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one.
Regional Ecosystems
I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne.
Bay of Fires Tasmania
One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. So they put together a sports technology ecosystem – gathering sports startups in apparel and footwear, protective wear, equipment, nutrition, wearable devices, data and video analytics, and web and mobile solutions and brought them together with investors, retailers and distributors, universities, research centers and national sporting organizations.
Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.
However, in meeting some of the sports startups one of the things that struck me is that most of the founders who said they wanted to grow big hadn’t given much thought about how they would go about building size and scale.
The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them.
It doesn’t.
Born Global or Die Local
The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big.
Instead of beginning with just a focus on Australia, these startups needed to use the business model canvas and articulate which of their hypotheses should be tested locally and what would require getting on an airplane to test by watching someone’s pupils dilate face-to-face.
For example, one of the critical business model hypotheses they could test locally is Product/Market fit – the connection between their Value Proposition (what product or service they were building) and the Customer Segment (who they were building it for.)
Yair Shalev Nelson Atkins Museum of Art:
Welcome to Yair Shalev Blog, As you know I, Yair Shalev share my travel experience in my loving city in simple I am traveler and blogger both. Hopefully you are enjoying my blog. In previous entry I explained my love for Municipal Auditorium. Today blog entry by Yair Shalev outlines Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum’s new Bloch Building number one on its list of “The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels” which considered candidates from around the globe. On September 1, 2010, Julián Zugazagoitia became the fifth Director of the museum.
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum’s new Bloch Building number one on its list of “The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels” which considered candidates from around the globe. On September 1, 2010, Julián Zugazagoitia became the fifth Director of the museum.
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Yair Shalev West Coast :
Sounds seem interesting when I,Yair Shalev got lot of e-mails from my blog readers in case I don’t update my blog only a single day. They want listen every day from my side. As you know me if this is first time for you at Yair Shalev Blog. Let me know formally introduce me. I am Yair Shalev and Love to travel and blog about my experience. This blog entry outlines West Coast.
West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States, usually California, Oregon, and Washington. More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desertand on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Census groups the five states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii together as the Pacific States division.
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West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States, usually California, Oregon, and Washington. More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desertand on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Census groups the five states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii together as the Pacific States division.
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Yair Shalev Liberty Memorial
So today I decided to write about Liberty Memorial. I have visited it many times when I visit this I fell proud at Kansas City. The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, is a memorial to the soldiers who died in World War I and houses The National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004. Groundbreaking commenced November 1, 1921, and the city held a site dedication. The memorial was completed and dedicated on November 11, 1926. On September 21, 2006, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne declared Liberty Memorial a National Historic Landmark. The memorial in Penn Valley Park was designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle who won a design competition. Several sculptors, including Robert Aitken were involved. The approaches were designed by Wight and Wight.
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Yair Shalev Flight:
Welcome Seattle, WA lover to blog by Yair Shalev! As you know I am traveler lover and traveled to many country, Seattle is one of them that I like most and spend more time of my life in Seattle. In previous post, I,Yair Shalev shared my experience about Seattle Great Wheel. Today blog entry by me, Yair Shalev outlines Museum of Flight.
The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum at King County International Airport (Boeing Field), south of downtown Seattle,Washington. It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum in the world, it also hosts the largest K-12 educational programs in the world.
The museum attracts over 400,000 visitors every year. The museum serves more than 140,000 students yearly through both its onsite programs: aChallenger Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer camp (ACE), as well as outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon.
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The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum at King County International Airport (Boeing Field), south of downtown Seattle,Washington. It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum in the world, it also hosts the largest K-12 educational programs in the world.
The museum attracts over 400,000 visitors every year. The museum serves more than 140,000 students yearly through both its onsite programs: aChallenger Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer camp (ACE), as well as outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon.
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Yair Shalev Space Needle:
This Blog is running by me Yair Shalev as you know. If this is your first visit to my blog. Here is little about me. I am Yair Shalev. I live in Seattle, WA. There are many thing in Seattle, WA which I like most. Space Needle tower is one of them.
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and a symbol of Seattle. Built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World’s Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, it is 605 ft (184 m) high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour (89 m/s) and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude, as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. It also has 25 lightning rods.
Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle by elevators that travel at 10 miles per hour (4.5 m/s). The trip takes 41 seconds, and some tourists wait in hour-long lines. On windy days, the elevators slow to 5 miles per hour (2.2 m/s). On April 19, 1999, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Board designated it a historic landmark.
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and a symbol of Seattle. Built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World’s Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, it is 605 ft (184 m) high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour (89 m/s) and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude, as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. It also has 25 lightning rods.
Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle by elevators that travel at 10 miles per hour (4.5 m/s). The trip takes 41 seconds, and some tourists wait in hour-long lines. On windy days, the elevators slow to 5 miles per hour (2.2 m/s). On April 19, 1999, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Board designated it a historic landmark.
Yair Shalev Pacific:
I, Yair Shalev love Seattle Pacific University. You know me already if you read my blog. Don’t worry if it is first time for you at my blog. Let me know formally introduce me. I am Yair Shalev behind this blog. I write about my interest at this blog. You will definitely enjoy my blog.
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian university of the liberal arts, sciences and professions, located on the north slope of Queen Anne Hillin Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary. It became the Seattle Seminary and College in 1913, changed names again to Seattle Pacific College in 1915, and took its present name in 1977. Seattle Pacific University is a member of the Christian College Consortium.
SPU enjoys a 43-acre (17 ha) campus on the northern slope of the residential neighborhood of Queen Anne Hill, close to the artsy Fremont neighborhood. Some of the massive trees in the campus’ Tiffany Loop are the oldest remaining original trees in Seattle. One thing that I,Yair Shalev like most in SPU is Peterson Hall. Peterson Hall is the second-oldest building on campus and houses the School of Education as well as Family and Consumer Sciences.
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Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian university of the liberal arts, sciences and professions, located on the north slope of Queen Anne Hillin Seattle, Washington, USA. It was founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary. It became the Seattle Seminary and College in 1913, changed names again to Seattle Pacific College in 1915, and took its present name in 1977. Seattle Pacific University is a member of the Christian College Consortium.
SPU enjoys a 43-acre (17 ha) campus on the northern slope of the residential neighborhood of Queen Anne Hill, close to the artsy Fremont neighborhood. Some of the massive trees in the campus’ Tiffany Loop are the oldest remaining original trees in Seattle. One thing that I,Yair Shalev like most in SPU is Peterson Hall. Peterson Hall is the second-oldest building on campus and houses the School of Education as well as Family and Consumer Sciences.
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Yair Shalev Crown Center
Welcome to blog by Yair Shalev, As you know I have spend my life in different country and cities and now I like to share my views about my loving cities. You know me already in case if you missed it. I am Yair Shalev, this blog is running by me simple a traveler lover Yair Shalev behind this blog. Today blog entry outlines crown center.
Crown Center is a commercial complex and neighborhood located near Downtown Kansas City, Missouri located between Gillham Road and Grand Boulevard to the east and west, and between Pershing Boulevard and Union Hill to the north and south. The shopping center is anchored by Halls, a department store which is owned and operated by Hallmark Cards. The neighborhood contains numerous residences, retail establishments, entertainment venues, and restaurants (including the American Restaurant, the only Forbes Travel Guide four-star restaurant in Missouri). It is also home to Kansas City’s two largest hotels, the global headquarters of Hallmark Cards, and the headquarters of Shook, Hardy & Bacon and Lathrop & Gage, two of Kansas City’s largest law firms.
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Crown Center is a commercial complex and neighborhood located near Downtown Kansas City, Missouri located between Gillham Road and Grand Boulevard to the east and west, and between Pershing Boulevard and Union Hill to the north and south. The shopping center is anchored by Halls, a department store which is owned and operated by Hallmark Cards. The neighborhood contains numerous residences, retail establishments, entertainment venues, and restaurants (including the American Restaurant, the only Forbes Travel Guide four-star restaurant in Missouri). It is also home to Kansas City’s two largest hotels, the global headquarters of Hallmark Cards, and the headquarters of Shook, Hardy & Bacon and Lathrop & Gage, two of Kansas City’s largest law firms.
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Yair Shalev Seahawks:
My name is Yair Shalev and I am a huge fan of the Seattle Seahawks. Led by second-year quarterback Russell Wilson, who went to the University of Wisconsin and by Marshawn Lynch, who went to the University of California, Berkeley, the Seahawks are a formidale team with a devastating defense. I go to most of the home games and enjoy being part of the 12th man.
I even have a jersey with my name on the back, “Yair Shalev“.
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I even have a jersey with my name on the back, “Yair Shalev“.
Check back on my blog after every Sunday to see my thoughts on the latest Seahawks game.
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Yair Shalev China:
Thank you for visiting this blog by Yair Shalev. As you know I have already told you about me and my interest. I love blogging about my interest point. Today I am going to entry about China. I, Yair Shalev have spend some time of my life in China. Every body know about “The Great Wall Of China”. It is really amazing. You know It counts in 7 wonder of World.
China officially the People’s Republic of China, is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing.It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities(Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The PRC also claims Taiwan – which is controlled by the Republic of China (ROC), a separate political entity – as its 23rd province, a claim controversial due to the complex political status of Taiwan and the unresolved Chinese Civil War.
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China officially the People’s Republic of China, is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing.It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities(Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The PRC also claims Taiwan – which is controlled by the Republic of China (ROC), a separate political entity – as its 23rd province, a claim controversial due to the complex political status of Taiwan and the unresolved Chinese Civil War.
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