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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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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

YoungUpstarts

Viljakainen’s was recently in town to give a talk and promote his book “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “, and we were fortunate enough to catch him for a short interview to talk about how business leadership in the new digital era. I wanted to crystallize what I have learned about leadership over the years.

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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

Look to the company’s leadership to clarify where they’re headed and where they plan to be in a decade; at the very least, “the founder should be able to tell you the percentage of the market that they plan to capture over a specific time period and what type of growth potential they envision.”.

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Seven Leadership Tips That Make People Feel Great And Achieve Incredible Results

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Gordon, author of “ The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World “ Any business leader will tell you that running a world-class organization is no easy feat. There is a power associated with positive leadership. Cross, R., & Wooten, M.

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What Just Happened

Feld Thoughts

Each one took a ton of work from the leadership team. 2003 was hard. I have 14 other stories from the companies in our portfolio that I’m responsible for. My partners have another 50+. Each one is different. I was wrong, and then 9/11 happened, and then Enron and Worldcom happened, and business kept getting worse.

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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.).

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What can online communities learn from Eve Online?

VC Cafe

This massively multiplayer online game (MMO) has been around since 2003 and has built a dedicated following of players who have formed their own unique online communities within the game. I was impressed with the coordination, teamwork, huge effort and leadership displayed by different alliances. Not kidding.