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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

As a result, I cofounded Artemis Health, a company that offers a benefit optimization data platform for employers. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.