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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

The same impulse is behind the Corona Initiative, which is working to research diagnostics for the coronavirus and also build the tools scientists need to study the virus. We didn't prioritize the experimentation, the groundwork, the foundation building that progress and resilience require. We didn't prioritize science.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Sydney Gressel : So my undergraduate degree is in Buddhism and I had a religious studies degree and I started doing hospice care from a Buddhist background and started taking care of people in their end of life. Now I happen to be an entrepreneurial type person. And I did some international travel. You threw this pizza party.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

And so, we want to really think about what types of decisions merit taking time, and what types of decisions merit going fast. And then there are certain types of decisions where it’s just really helpful to, sort of, get some feedback from the world. Then I’m going to build much better models of the world.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece. I understand the fact that.NET does promote a lot of lazy behavior through their automated tools, but that doesn’t mean you can’t build a successful platform without using those tools. pickup games.

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Simulation Theory:

Austin Startup

Any discussion of this type must shift from a primarily scientific one to a more philosophical one, as we are unlikely to ever have observational evidence of what, if anything, is outside of our universe. Some type of primordial energy. It could also be the case that our universe is the first and that there was nothing before it.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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