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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

I spent 10 years creating and running an insurance pricing company, 10 years creating and running a popular email provider called Fastmail, and almost 10 years as a very boring corporate strategy management consultant at McKinsey. And so I started doing that with this management consulting guy. Jeremy Howard : Not much really.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Why Eastern Europe?

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

The CEO of Transformify, Lilia Stoyanov, said ‘’ An umbrella or contract staffing solution is perfectly addressing the needs of those businesses facing skilled labor shortages on their local markets. However, a typical umbrella solution doesn’t address the candidate sourcing needs. All visa, relocation, etc. About Generate.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. We are a group who support mental health practitioners with office management and administrative tasks remotely.

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What To Know About Accepting International Payments

YoungUpstarts

When you expand your eCommerce business, and you target other countries, regardless of what it is you sell, you’re giving yourself the opportunity to drive revenue in new markets. For example, in the Netherlands, the majority of payments are done by direct debit, while in the Czech Republic, the standard is cash on delivery payment.

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It May Be An Open Book, But The EU Ain’t On The Best-Seller List

YoungUpstarts

If time is money – and in the world of business, it surely is – then honing the bottom line whilst at the same time hitting the marketing message home hard and accurately is key to survival in an increasingly competitive and straitened internationalised business landscape. Europe as an export market.

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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

John Stelmach is the President and CFO of Contentverse , a virtual document management system used by parts of the US Government and small to large businesses all over the world. The truth, for those of you demanding your boss lets you do it, is that it’s one of the more intensely hard-to-manage business processes. No need for pants.