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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

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. Then I realized, "Oh no, this is really, really, real."

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Starbucks, which is now a common coffee hangout place all over the United States, has an interesting owner. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. #4- Netflix.

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States. That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”

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Coach Helping People Deal With Traumatic Situations

Hearpreneur

She was an international facilitator and spoke all over the world from Russia to Spain to Canada and throughout the United States. That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Texas has world-class educational institutions across the state. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

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“We are one of just 13 industrialized countries with a rising maternal mortality rate” – Christy Turlington Burns on Fighting for Healthy Mothers

Hunter Walker

How has this reality impacted the type of community building you do—does it make you more careful? CTB: I became aware of the global problem after giving birth in the US and experiencing a childbirth complication personally in 2003. The United States is going backwards and we must do something about it. More fearless?