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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

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Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. This is the 13th year the conference has been in business, which alternates each year between Kansas City and St. Invest Midwest ended with a presentation by Jim McKelvey, cofounder of the mobile-payment company Square and a local St.

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What Skills Every New Internet Entrepreneur Needs

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I had lunch with one of my favorite Internet entrepreneurs today, Mark Sawyier , the CEO of Off Campus Media. Sawyier came to this business without any formal training in computer science, business, management, or other technology training, yet he is a natural when it comes to running a modern-day Internet business.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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So one of my long running rants has been about how we should gather all the evidence we have to try and make a best guess as to the distribution of possible outcomes based on possible upsides and possible risks and costs and make an overall assessment of that totality of evidence and impacts. Louis I think it was.