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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The main proteinase of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 shares a 96% similarity, which means that if the world had persisted in discovering a proteinase inhibitor against the 2003 version of SARS, COVID-19 might not even be a pandemic. Growing up in Hong Kong, I experienced that firsthand, the paralyzation of the entire city. Eric Ries : Yeah.

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Hydrogen-Powered Defense: The Next Big Thing?

ReadWriteStart

A: Mach Industries is a startup founded by Ethan Thornton in 2003 that develops hydrogen-powered platforms for the defense industry. Thornton expects to produce thousands of products annually within the next five years, with some systems reaching the end-user within 12 months and others taking around 12 years.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

He founded software development company Logic Software in 2000, followed by Easy Projects in 2003, with the aim to enable project managers to create, manage and update projects quickly and easily. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there. crickets*. What we are doing will look obvious in retrospect.

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Deja Vu all over again

deal architect

In my travels, I got reminders of several due diligence visits I had helped clients with from 2003 to 2010. I was in India last week and visited with a couple of outsourcing firms. The Renaissance in Powai reminded me.

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The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study

The Startup Magazine

TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2003). The entry of tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and Intel into the world renders NASDAQ ‘The Mecca of Technology Companies.’ ’ Its valuation is $13.8 Trillion overall. Often identified as the Tokyo Stock Exchange, TYO, and T?sh?, the TSE is in Tokyo, Japan.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.