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[ADV] Neil Billock On Rebuilding Puerto Rico: A Viable Market For SMBs To Penetrate

YoungUpstarts

Puerto Rico is a US colony but the lack of competition makes it a viable country for mainland-based entrepreneurs to penetrate. The World Bank has once placed Puerto Rico as one of the most competitive markets in Latin America with high economic growth. Puerto Rico is a key US economic and military asset.

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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

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Which means that for me to get the policy changed here, I actually had to become an advocate and a campaigner. That's just not enough to move the dial on policy.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

Earlier this week, Ron Klain was named President-Elect Biden's chief of staff. At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. (16:17)