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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

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. Mongolia, which I think had a law about requiring them. Eric Ries : What kind of evidence were you looking at?

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When I Hear “Fastest Growing” I Reach for XKCD

Diego Basch

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a pilgrimage to Mongolia, along with Vice President Joe Biden and before him George W. Wow, is Mongolia the up-and-coming economic powerhouse of the world? In other words, Mongolia plays a negligible role in the world economy. Not so fast. In other words, it’s tiny.

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

In a second, similar attack, a group called Vicious Panda targeted government organizations in Mongolia that claimed to have new information about the numbers of new COVID-19 infections. When computer users clicked on the attachment and unzipped the file, it opened a trojan virus through the back door.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

At these events (there about 1,000 per year from Boulder to Mongolia to Chile to New Zealand), entrepreneurs and the community gather to build startups in 54 hours. Startup Weekend is my absolute favorite global event for entrepreneurship. If you’ve never been to one, you’re really missing out.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere.    It is an amazing tool.