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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. This hypothesis might be the case until we saw the crisis in Italy. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finnish at a cost of $50,000. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. HR rules are local.

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International Cultures are Key Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

I informed him that we needed to translate the software into Finish at a cost of $50,000. Thus, when the government creates restrictions, think out of the box. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. HR rules are local.

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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

Steve Blank

Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union) made strategic decisions about what types of weapons to build (tanks, airplanes, ships, submarines, artillery, rockets), what was the right mix (aircraft carriers, fighter planes, bombers, light/ medium/ heavy tanks, etc.) government to aggressively fund atomic research, so that the U.S.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The Golden Brat™ Shirt are crafted with Mercerized Cotton Lisle Yarn made in Italy, Certified High Quality , the shirts are natural stretch and follow the movement of the body, so are a No stress Shirt. I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  It was simple   - Reduce costs and improve consumer experience for the large retailers.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. It was bootstrapped.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate. They struggle to maintain cost advantages. But then the world changes. It globalizes.

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