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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

Starting a business comes with a lot of on-the-go lessons, but Jeremiah Boehner, a serial entrepreneur and senior director of sales at MyLikes, an advertising platform, says the most important lessons are those that teach you about yourself. “As Reason #2: Get a personal education. Connect on Twitter: @Tash_Courtenay.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. Privy: online advertising for small/medium-sized businesses.

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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

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated. So yeah, I was kind of like a curator and kind of an organizer, I guess.