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Amica Newport Rhode Island Marathon

Feld Thoughts

I completed #19 in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday. My friend Warren Katz finished his first marathon (at age 47) and his wife Ilana cranked out a PR for a half in 2:00. Matt paced me through the Huntsville, AL several years ago and is a great marathon partner. While my running base is great, I made three mistakes.

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Maternova Experiences Impressive Growth Since Winning Palo Alto Software’s First LivePlan $10,000 Business Boost Competition

Up and Running

Palo Alto Software announced today that it is excited to see the ongoing growth of Rhode Island-based startup, Maternova ([link] , the social venture startup winner of Palo Alto Software’s first annual national business plan competition in 2012, dubbed the “LivePlan $10,000 Boost”. Eugene, OR (PRWEB) February 14, 2013.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I’d previously been the lead publicist at a very posh PR firm, and the running joke was that I was incredibly “off brand.” And really in PR, the best media coverage starts with the basic pitch. I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company.

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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. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. Before that I founded a company called Enlitic, which was the first company to focus on deep learning and medicine. Eric Ries : Yeah.