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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

Starting a business means you get to select the people you work with, which Jeremy Durant, co-founder of Bop Design, a marketing agency, says is one of the biggest reasons to start a business. The business, which introduces cultures to kids through books and other products, is run from Tainan, Taiwan. “If

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (America’s influence and footprint on the world stage). is dependent on TSMC , located in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China.

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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. So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated. So yeah, I was kind of like a curator and kind of an organizer, I guess.