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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

Turk was among the first platforms to truly leverage the power of a distributed workforce and to demonstrate that providers around the world would happily participate in such a model. Recent projects include scholarships for cancer survivors, efforts to fight malaria, and raising funds to buy a truck for a village in Africa.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

It’s a luxury brand, but a brand designed with certain scale effects. It is a brand designed to make you feel good through its choice of geography, its restaurant design, its build quality, and the consistency of the food you get. He expressed to me the idea that investing in Africa was—he used the word “risky.”

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- The company logo was designed to include the various colors of jade. My wife was a web designer and I a search marketer and it seemed a good match. Accountability.

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

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 in economic impact.

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 in economic impact.

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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

So one of my long running rants has been about how we should gather all the evidence we have to try and make a best guess as to the distribution of possible outcomes based on possible upsides and possible risks and costs and make an overall assessment of that totality of evidence and impacts. We don't have to wait for the government.