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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

As an example, Team Aggregate DB was working with the State Department Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

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One Small Change I Made That Improved My Daily Mental State

Both Sides of the Table

I find Axios to be a much better aggregator for what I want to know (politics, news, tech) than Facebook is. I then check Washington Post and NY Times. It’s curated, which post Russia turns out to actually be quite a good thing. I don’t get sucked into meaningless videos or news stories.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. We’ve been talking recently because he’s been thinking a lot about healthcare.