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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

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I’ve been too busy working on a lawn mowing startup in Brisbane Australia, more than 7,000 miles away. The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. The interesting thing is that I’ve never even been to Stanford.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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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. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't. He's a good friend.