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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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White When my Co-Founders Leslie Alvarado and Dr. Aubrey J. 8- Using short and simple terms Photo Credit: Maurice Harary As entrepreneurs and co-founders of our small business, we wanted our company to be memorable with a short, punchy name that any layperson outside our industry would immediately recognize and understand. .”

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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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

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.

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At SXSW 2017; bots, films and a Vice President

Austin Startup

Walk With Me goes deep inside the Zen community highlighting the life and meditations of Thich Nhat Hanh in the pursuit for deeper connections with the world around us. Barbecue dives into the ritual practices performed across the world from South Africa to Sweden journeying to 12 countries to talk about the art of grilling meat.