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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

Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. We would literally be talking about a chemist at the whiteboard or using their imagination trying to cut down on this search base somehow, and that's why it was so time consuming. Eric Ries : Wow.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. Charles Darwin. Just like a startup.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. It analyzes radio signals from the outer space searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.

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