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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

These reports might include estimates for production costs and returns, like this one on the University of Maryland Extension Portal. Farming used to be so much more about community. It is so much easier to be successful as a farmer if you have even the slightest bit of support from your community. This is a global site.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Write to Deborah Gage at deborah.gage@dowjones.com. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. www.djreprints.com. Youre Not Alone.

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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

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.