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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide Our response has been very favorable and we’ve expanded into Ohio and Connecticut in addition to launching a related site for comparison shopping for residential natural gas. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new.

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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 plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks." So there was like scary moments. Eric Ries : Yeah.