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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe?

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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. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't. What did you actually see?

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. After our initial shock ended, we decided that we were doing some of the best marketing in the technology channel and wanted to take it to other companies like ours. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

I’m really not interested in running my social life online and I am worried about data privacy and security. And to think you've been pimping social media on every company you can find. :). Let's compare USA and Czech Republic … 9% of the roughly 17 million cars sold in the US were purchased online.

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