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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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Three Lessons from the Coronavirus for Telecom Service Providers So Far

The Startup Magazine

The fear is that networks will not be able to cope , especially if other countries follow the examples set by the Czech Republic, Ireland and Italy, shutting schools and restricting movement. The post Three Lessons from the Coronavirus for Telecom Service Providers So Far appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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What To Know About Accepting International Payments

YoungUpstarts

When you’re an eCommerce startup founder, or you’ve been running an eCommerce business for some time, you may decide that you want to expand and sell to other countries. 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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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We are a group who support mental health practitioners with office management and administrative tasks remotely. I only managed a few months there before leaving to create a solution. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. 6- Flexibility, ownership and to help others.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Welcome to our fair city.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Alfred Jorgensen Laboratory

crowdSPRING Blog

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurs are inventors, leaders, innovators and all around super humans that can manage and juggle a thousand or more tasks in tandem with functioning as a normal human in society. I left the Czech Republic at age 16 to pursue the American Dream. Thanks to Joel Razi Lutfiyya, Small Business Growth ! #9 15 – A Seeker.