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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The main proteinase of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 shares a 96% similarity, which means that if the world had persisted in discovering a proteinase inhibitor against the 2003 version of SARS, COVID-19 might not even be a pandemic. Growing up in Hong Kong, I experienced that firsthand, the paralyzation of the entire city. Eric Ries : Yeah.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online. by Marcus Harris, Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

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Deja Vu all over again

deal architect

In my travels, I got reminders of several due diligence visits I had helped clients with from 2003 to 2010. I was in India last week and visited with a couple of outsourcing firms. The Renaissance in Powai reminded me.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. I had to be there. crickets*. What we are doing will look obvious in retrospect.

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The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study

The Startup Magazine

TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2003). The entry of tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and Intel into the world renders NASDAQ ‘The Mecca of Technology Companies.’ ’ Its valuation is $13.8 Trillion overall. Often identified as the Tokyo Stock Exchange, TYO, and T?sh?, the TSE is in Tokyo, Japan.

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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.