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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 institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. I am Eric Ries. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Celine Halioua : Yeah.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles. I love governments! A much more detailed collection of recommendations I’d written for the Government of Belgium a little while back. A quick best practice.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

Jered Lawson discovered a passion for community farming while in college. Jered worked for a time helping other community farmers, then decided he wanted to help in a more hands-on way: I got to that point where I thought, “All these places that I’m promoting for that connection to the farm … I would love that for myself as well.”

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“Everything is a marketing campaign now, even policy ideas” – Renee DiResta Connecting Politics, Anti-Vaxxers & Social Media

Hunter Walker

In 2015 when we started working on the law to eliminate vaccine opt-outs in California, it became pretty obvious that there was an asymmetry of passion on social channels that was pretty much the opposite of actual public opinion (which is 85% in favor of vaccination requirements for school). And plenty of people have known this for years.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. 51:36) Scientific background on niclosamide, what we know about how it works to stop viral replication. (52:48) 43:26) Differences between coronaviruses and other viruses. (44:41)

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth Moulton

Steve Blank

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. He offered context for the government’s innovation efforts: The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.