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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

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. More than that, we operate also a forum where a lot of the scientists can discuss ideas, discuss strategies, which means they gather a lot of interesting discussions on how to pursue the chemistry or how do we improve the molecular properties, et cetera.

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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. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Entrepreneurs That Best Represents Innovation and Disruption

Hearpreneur

He began his operations from a one-bedroom apartment, where the disruption process began. He studied computer engineering while attending Stanford University. The largest search engine and streaming site were eventually combined due to this. #9- Marc Benioff. Photo Credit: Aviad Faruz. Photo Credit: Robert Calderon.

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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. “ Today, we are experiencing a similar threat to innovation with patents playing the role of “weapons of mass destruction.”

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Not only are they up for food deliveries, they have also maintained a quality service on travel booking, financial needs, healthcare needs, and other local operations through the years. To me, they demonstrate that businesses shouldn’t need to operate at the expense of ethics, and that’s something I aspire to as a business owner.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

All manual operations. It was 2003. The more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels.

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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. If done as pure education this can be a very powerful way to add value to your current client relationships and demonstrate the way you operate to these hot prospects. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.