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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 main proteinase of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 shares a 96% similarity, which means that if the world had persisted in discovering a proteinase inhibitor against the 2003 version of SARS, COVID-19 might not even be a pandemic. Eric Ries : Out of curiosity, do you test against live virus or a pseudo virus? How do you do the testing?

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online. A poorly updated device can make it easier for hackers to breach confidential information. by Marcus Harris, Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Regularly update device software.

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6 Time-Saving Social Media Tools For Startups

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Trello makes it easy to organize work and keep everyone on the team informed without lengthy update discussions. Since 2003, Chris Makara has developed a broad digital marketing background with a focus on SEO, Social Media, Automation and Analytics. Stop doing things the long way and start doing them the smart way.

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When being an “expert” is harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can’t rely on five-year-old information about your potential customers — even the stodgy big-company ones but especially the mass-market consumer ones. Industries built around control of information are now out of control (real estate, publishing). First, markets change rapidly.

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Q320 Vacation and Books

Feld Thoughts

It was the wrong “first new information” and it made me extremely anxious. I loved seeing his promotion of companies that vaporized by 2003. Last Saturday evening I turned it off and turned it back on yesterday morning. My one mistake was reading the Sunday New York Times first thing yesterday.

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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. Between therapy, coaching, and consistent pursuit of new information I have been able to grow to the point of leading a $75m a year company. #4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 9- Howard Schultz.

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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

Emmanuel de Watteville, General Partner and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, has been part of the startup ecosystem since 2003. He has acquired extensive experience in coaching, creating, managing, developing and financing more than 200 high-tech startups across several sectors, including the medical and information technologies.