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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. In fact, largely I was plagiarizing from a guy called Petr Ludwig who had already done all this in the Czech Republic. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks."