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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

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And if they do, they complain about lack of global potential or misunderstand my product completely. “Do Do they really expect that the next Facebook will come knocking at their ivory towers with a polished product, proven business model and the only thing missing on the way to an IPO being their Series A investment?”.

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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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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. Mongolia, which I think had a law about requiring them. Eric Ries : What kind of evidence were you looking at?