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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Without a clear explanation of why this had been done, startups, which were already being funded by ever-increasing pools of venture capital, abandoned cooperation with the Defense Department and focused on high returns on social media and commercial applications. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile.

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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 I noticed from stories on social media, I guess, that countries that were using masks a lot, seem to be getting better outcomes than countries that didn't at like hundreds of times better, which is exactly the evidence which a lot of medical folks tend to ignore because it's so imperfect. Massachusetts is rapidly moving as well.