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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. I am Eric Ries.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

Up and Running

Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. The SAM for our example might be men with curly hair because you curate products specific to that style. Any of these can lead to failure. Future plans.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I think they’re missing something.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli gave me the idea for the title of this post because he ran a breakout session at the Upfront Summit titled “How to Out Amazon, Amazon.” Curation There are really multiple forms of “curation” that I think can build sustainable differentiation in products vs. the retailer that is selling them.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Furthermore, I aspired to curate a workplace of top-tier experts in the field, and retain talent by providing them with autonomy and the opportunity to excel. I remember moving to California almost 10 years ago and was completely overwhelmed. Photo Credit: Chandler Sterling. Thanks to Jimmy Watts, Own The Grill ! #29-

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays. Better search.