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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

One of the recurring themes in the people that I've spoken to in the last few weeks is a society wide sudden realization about the importance of science as the engine of progress, And the importance of having science driven policy, as if somehow we didn't know that before, but somehow we didn't. Let me ask you about your background.

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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5

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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. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

He studied computer engineering while attending Stanford University. The largest search engine and streaming site were eventually combined due to this. In 2003, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis were friends who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #21-

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4 Tips To Build A Deep Virtual Bench Of Talent

YoungUpstarts

days in 2001-2003. This helps employers identify which schools are graduating the most data scientists, engineers or history majors , helps analyze your recruitment patterns versus those of your competition, and provides information about growth of skills in certain areas of the country.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites.

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Another Day, Another Patent Troll

Feld Thoughts

In his 2003 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffet famously called derivatives, “” financial weapons of mass destruction ” that could harm not only their buyers and sellers, but the whole economic system. “