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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

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2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. Thanks to Steve Keighery, Home Buyer Louisiana ! #3- Seeing this extra time as an opportunity allowed me to teach my 18-year-old son (who was home from college due to COVID closure) how to flip his first condo.

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

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Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Web Design/Tech Services.

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

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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. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.