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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 institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. Are we talking about scales of funding that only the government can do, or is there a role for private philanthropists and non profits here? I am Eric Ries. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We''ve been building the company for almost ten years now and we have three major locations in the United States, as well as about half-a-dozen overseas offices. Another interesting feature of those early years: most of what we needed to know was outside the company. Growth changed all that. Over a thousand people work here now.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities?

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. VIPKid links students in China who want to learn English with native English speaking tutors in the United States and Canada. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

It didn't take much searching to find out that the drug had been tested against SARS-CoV-1 (known to non-scientists as SARS, the 2003 pandemic ) and had proved effective against the replication of that virus. Eric Ries : When was the last time you heard about an order of magnitude speed up in government responsiveness?

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

To tempt you, let me just contrast the gender gap performance of the United States (precipitous decline in the last two years!) Bonus: In the spirit of government data, I’ll be remiss if I did not share with you three examples of interactive scatter plots from Our World in Data (produced by the University of Oxford).

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