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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Tealet: marketplace designed to connect tea drinkers with growers.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

For example, today, designing a smartphone App that alerts you when you have lost your car keys isn’t a viable standalone company; today, a service-based local software solution to manage ecommerce for brick and mortar companies, even if it is profitable, is not an interesting technology investment. .

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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. How that data came into your awareness.