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So I watched Sam Altman’s “How to Start a Startup” in a single day

This article is authored by Chris Markl  who serves as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Florida State University. This article originally appeared on medium.com (hyper link to the story on medium) In the fall of 2015, Sam Altman President of Y-Combinator, taught a class at Stanford entitled “How to Start a Startup”. All lectures are online. I’m on faculty as an Entrepreneur in Residence at…

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Reading the Court Cards -Jobs and characteristics of each court card

Court cards can represent people or you in a reading. There are four groups of court cards with four different characters. Depending on how many court cards are in a reading and how they are facing each other can tell you a lot about your answer to your question. They can also represent characteristics in a reading. Many readers use court cards in love readings to figure out the zodiac, physical attributes and other characteristics of a future lover. Now let's go down the list of what each court card represents.

King of wands

Zodiac: All fire signs more commonly for Sagittarius I've noticed, also common to come up for Scorpio placements due to the s*xual nature of the king of wands.

Planet: Mars

Jobs: Father, Teacher, Politician, Marketing, Producer, Businessman, Relator, Agent, Motivational speaker or Manager.

Characteristics: S*xual person, athletic, outgoing, optimistic, innovative, competitive, magnetic, impulsive, protective, magnetic, obsessive, honest, charismatic, domineering

Queen of Wands

Zodiac: Leo in the traditional deck there are lions decorating her throne. Pisces as well.

Planet: Sun

Jobs: Counselors, Exotic dancers, Dancers, Artist, Performer, Art director, Interior design, Aerobics, Business women, Human Resources, restaurant, hotel, Actress, someone who works with animals.

Characteristics; Loud, proud, extroverted, confidently different, exaggerated expression, passionate, ambitious, warm, kind, fun, opinionated, rash, bossy.

Knight of Wands

Zodiac: Sagittarius, occasionally July leos/cancers

Planet: Jupiter

Jobs: Soldier, Construction worker, Marketing, Promoting, Electricians, travel guide, travel influencer, waiters, Day trading, working with cars, horse stables, stage actor, stage man, startup, sports, activism.

Characteristics: Charismatic, Adventurous, Energetic, moves around a lot, Fearless, foolish, happy go lucky, cocky, Superficial, Restless, Confident in his actions, believes more in people's actions than words. S*xual card as well.

Page of Wands

Zodiac: Aries

Planet: Mars

Jobs: Gym coach, trainer, sneaker designer, improv actor, entry level job, band member, stage hand, yoga instructor, taxi/Uber, someone who works with a lot of hot food, dog walker/caretaker, veterinarian assistant.

Characteristics: Outgoing, childish, lively, someone who needs a lot of stimulation, someone who falls in love easily, young soul, immature, optimistic, loves trying new things, takes chances, gambler, rash, easy going, impatient, doesn't keep mouth shut, naive.

King of Swords

Zodiac: Capricorn/Aquarius

Planet: Saturn

Jobs: lawyer, judge, mediator, CEO, tech industry, crypto, banker, telecommunications, accountant, insurance, brain surgeon, newspaper writer, tax office, news reporter, high government job, politician, math professor.

Characteristics: Cool tempered, business oriented, analytical, conservative, ambitious, authoritative, ruthless, dishonest but also blunt, high standards, disciplined, cruel, direct, introverted, mature, intellectual, integrity.

Queen of Swords

Zodiac: Libra can sometimes represent a 1st Deacon Virgo.

Planet: Uranus/Venus

Jobs: Lecturer, executive, working in prisons, editors, journalists, coding, business women, quantum physics, statistics, lawyer, politics, publishing, medicine field, chemist, mediator, divorce lawyer.

Characteristics: Crone, critical of herself and others, analytical, direct, intelligently charming, truthful, just, constructive, single women, witty, pessimistic, realist, sharp, independent, sophisticated, can get a read on people very easily, women whose into psychological tricks.

Knight of Swords

Zodiac: Gemini/libra

Planet: Mercury

Jobs: Radio station, media, stand up comedy, attorney, Translator, military, detective, game developer, para-educator, teacher, EMTs, administrator, analyst, people who work with weather. Jobs with a lot of communication or speed.

Characteristics: assertive, communicator, dashing, brave, speedy, talkative, opinionated, intelligent, determined, ambitious, sarcastic, comedic, impulsive, arrogant, self confident, dashing, over estimating themselves, goes into situations very quickly.

Page of Swords

Zodiac sign: All air signs

Planet: Mercury

Jobs: Entry level communication jobs, Customer service, apprenticeship, maybe tattoo apprenticeship cause swords could be needles, technician, spy, blogger, flight attendant, leasing agent, student, IT person.

Characteristics: Curious, childish, thinking outside of the box, puzzle solver, quick thinker, complains a lot, nit picks, good writer, frank, alert of their surroundings, quick learner, agile, innovative, abrasive, observer and takes mental notes on people and their environment, lively, scholarly.

King of Cups

Zodiac sign: Pisces/Aquarius

Planet: Neptune

Jobs: High level entertainment or art industry, Doctor, photographer, stay at home dad, therapist, psychiatrist, marine biologist, veterinarian, working around water or boats, fisherman, teacher, CEO, owner of a club or bar or restaurant.

Characteristics: Kind, fatherly, stays in control of their emotions, family person, passionate, romantic, delusional, liar, exaggerates, creative, intuitive, opportunist, may like alcohol or drugs, passive aggressive, caring, charming, empathetic, flexible.

Queen of Cups

Zodiac sign: Cancer

Planet: Moon

Jobs: Stay at home mother, nurse, nursing home worker, zoologist, creative therapist (music, art), nutritionist, cosmetics industry, detective, party planner, actor, LPN, herbalist, case worker, massage therapist, physical therapist, seamstress, someone who cares for others and is creative.

Characteristics: Warm, maternal, heart of gold, loyal friend, imaginative, not punctual, intuitive, empathetic, can notice "vibes" very easily, nurturing, creative, sensitive, psychic, emotion over logic, peace keeper, bystander unless it's their children or family, illusions, dreamy, soft.

Knight of Cups

Zodiac sign: Scorpio/1st decon pisces

Planet: Pluto

Jobs: Diplomat, babysitter, health care, musician, writer, stylist, fashion designer, hairdresser, may have a job in spirituality, politician, graphic designer, zoologist, doggy daycare, daycare worker, groomer(pets), costal guard, pharmacist, graduate.

Characteristics: mediator, emotional, charismatic, idealizes everything around them, good at taking care of themselves, loyal, supportive, creative, jealous, possessive, moody, affectionate, love language might be gift giving, dreamer, polite, good with animals.

Page of Cups

Zodiac sign: All water signs

Element: Moon

Jobs: student, life guard, entry level jobs, counseling, art therapy, mental health worker, fisherman, model, artist for commissions, seamstress, content creator, retail worker.

Characteristics: Sensitive, fashionable, vain, nice, sweet, easily gets in relationships, obsessive, dreamer, gentle, loves love, positive, childish, cries easily, imaginative, good with animals, may have lots of pets, intuitive, intuitive dreams, optimistic

King of Pentacles

Zodiac sign: Taurus, Capricorn and Aries

Planet: Saturn

Jobs: Finance, Big CEO, banker, accountant, Stockbroker, financial advisor, something to do with the earth (landscape, plants, building, oil...), Lawyer, carpenter, landscaper, bodybuilder, executive, consultant, real estate, investor, flipping houses.

Characteristics: Strong willed, steady, responsible, calm headed, stubborn, authoritative, hard worker, if he has money he will make sure his family are taken care of, presents well, persistent, professional, solid, successful, dependable, reliable, provider, protective, determined, loyal, work ethic, good taste in food, good with money.

Queen of Pentacles

Zodiac sign: Taurus, Capricorn

Planet: Earth

Jobs: interior decorator, real estate agent, finical manager, business manager, business women, CEO, investor, angel investor, jeweler, personal shopper, someone who works with nature and animals, mother, private cook, business in the home, designer, psychologist.

Characteristics: Down to earth, calm, stable, knows herself and her surroundings, organized, materialistic, micromanager, green thumb, nurturing, silent, luxurious, compassionate, devoted, doesn't do flimsy relationships (friends and romance), knows what she wants and how to get it, dresses to impress, business minded.

Knight of Pentacles

Zodiac sign: Virgo, Scorpio, gemini

Planet: Mercury

Jobs: Retail manager, quality control, explorer, herbalist, zoologist, biologist, blue collar worker, carpentry, potter, wood carver, soldier, landscape, works with horses, veterinarian, mechanic, security guard, works with safes and safe keeping stuff, works with metal and land, waiter.

Characteristics: Hard worker, grounded, efficient, diligent, ambitious, considerate, influential, has your best interest at heart, quiet, not a complainer, ambitious, good taste in food or cooking, patient, forgiving but if you cross this person most likely to play the long game, methodical, young person but old soul.

Page of Pentacles

Zodiac sign: all earth signs

Planet: Earth

Jobs: Cashier, entry level, beginning level business or accountant job, someone who makes a lot of money off small gigs, entrepreneurship, generally a good sign for careers as it means the person has a lot of potential and is going on the right path career wise.

Characteristics: Studious, focused on their goal, loyal, might be overworking themselves with too many goals and not enough balance, practical, methodical, rational, can indicate a person who is a little lazy but has potential, young at heart.

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Fourth Blog/Journal

The remaining days before the dreadful final term, my group decided to continue validating our pitch and or idea which is the Fixit platform through quantitative and qualitative methods like, virtual interviews and survey questionnaires. We gained multiple responses and opinions on our product, but in general, the majority of the people who responded were happy to learn about our idea and offered some of their responses. Many were enthusiastic and believe the concept is well studied.Our responders’ significantly replied and delivered motivational messages to keep us going with this project. On November 24, 2021, we had the second lecture series by the guest speaker Ms. Krystel Nacua of EHATID sharing with us her Startup Journey. At the start of her presentation, she told us to never commit the most underlying mistake which as stated by her, “Never bite more than what you can swallow.” This was a huge message for them because, they experienced how bigger corporations or companies usually took advantage of small businesses by refusing to provide them the agreed fee or payment for their time and service. Someway, they managed to get back on their feet and made that experience a lesson that allowed them to produce extensive improvements with their business. In other words, the statement specifically relays a message that when starting a business, we must fully be wary of the opportunities coming ahead.

Ms. Nacua also shared that their customer journey map was preserved as their preparation for the opening of the new normal that will serve as their bucket to retain customers. The customer journey map also provides details on how the customers interact with the app and services. So, the first method that they did was spread the news or advertisements about their apps via social media platforms that will then lead potential customers to download and test the app. After downloading their app, there will be a call of action as those customers will start venturing or asking for their service by creating orders on the stores. The app also provides on-call service personnel for order confirmation. Lastly, the trained and professional riders are tasked to deliver the services offered and create a personal relationship with the customers. According to Ms. Nacua when a potential customer places their first order, he/she will then be hooked by the availing the offered services and when satisfied, will eventually order again and so on. Henceforth, this enlightened me and my groupmates and we created a unique and simple idea to make our customers pleased by fulfilling their needs and gratifying them, this will allow even a small business to prosper and grow.

On our 3rd lecture series on December 1, 2021, with the resource speaker, Ms. Keren L. Lacadin about Resource Generation and Pitching. Throughout the presentation, she stressed that for our enterprise to succeed, all members of our team must have the same purpose, quantifiable targets, and defined duties. A team should be composed of people with different skills. One would be a hacker, who is in charge of hacking the procedures and plans for success. They are often described as the team’s brain, oblivious to the various changes that exist around them. The hipster, is more concerned with design and user experience. This sort of individual has a pleasant personality while also having a deep awareness of people’s thoughts or our potential customers’ minds. They are also important to the team since they can comprehend the demands of our future consumers. Lastly, the hustlers who are in charge of marketing and business. These people are the hardest workers, and they are comparable to machine gears because, without them, our firm would grind to a halt. Ms. Lacadin also stated more about the Elevator Pitch, it’s like when a particular person pitches an idea to an executive during a single elevator ride. The elevator pitch uses a brief, persuasive speech that will use to spark interest in what the business does in 60 seconds or so. In preparation for an elevator pitch it must always include the startup blueprint or the business outline consisting of the Why, How, Values, and What of the potential startup is. This will permit the pitch to gather and also deliver the important details and functions of the potential business.

Moreover, the speaker also described numerous startup death valleys. The first is a lack of data. This is truly factual, if you are unfamiliar with both the goods you are selling and the potential customer, then there’s no way we can garner any money. How can someone establish a business if they don’t have any money? I’ve also heard that many people are hesitant to start a business because they lack the necessary initial funds and would not resort to borrowing money.

Finally, startups that do not gain traction will most likely fail. Traction refers to running a business without a solid foundation, that is, the firm is up and running but there is no clear vision of where it will go in the future. In connection, some people that are terrified to establish a business, are worried because they are unaware of the death valleys. Although it is evidently factual that there are dangers associated with starting a business, there are also numerous strategies and applicable methods to prevent them. With this, I gained a lot of knowledge during the lecture series over the remaining weeks and I am looking forward to learning more from those who have achieved success by taking risks in their chosen route.

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING STUDENTS

And strangely enough, it's also why they fail so frequently. In a sense, though, my filters do themselves embody a kind of password for sending mail to me. What you want to keep out more than bad people. So eliminating economic inequality means taking money from the rich. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to get it from somewhere. In practice the founders grow with the problems. I did enjoy developing for the iPhone, the control they place on the App Store. It's like the sort of software that's supposed to be the most powerful forces in human nature.

I have not yet seen evidence that seemed to me an important question, maybe the most important sentence first; write about stuff you like; if you can't get users, though. Next I create a third hash table, this time mapping each token to the probability that the mail is spam. They treat iPhone apps the way they treat the music they sell through iTunes. They could take everyone and keep just the good ones. VCs interested only in high-growth companies? And because startup founders work under great pressure, it's critical they be friends. The first person to write about, then write down what you said; expect 80% of the ideas writing would have generated. Designers trying to be artistic resort to swooshes and curlicues. You look at them and you think, the gall of these guys to try sending me mail that begins Dear Friend or has a subject line that's all uppercase and ends in eight exclamation points. There were a few other patterns, but these were the biggest. But I wouldn't want the site to go away.

False positives are innocent emails that get mistakenly identified as spams. The most ambitious is to try to write software that recognizes individual properties of spam. 1654587 us-ascii 0. You might come up with organic startup ideas usually don't seem like startup ideas at first. Parents will tend to make filtering easier. If we'd had our later selves to encourage and advise us, and Demo Day to present at, we would have been much better if we had operated under the assumption that it's all about us. The superior man is always happy; the small man sad, said Confucius. It used to be the most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripe's idea. Not opting out is not the end of the world just doesn't get startups, and why startups do things that ordinary companies don't, like raising money and getting acquired. So I bought it, but my mental models of the crusades, Venice, medieval culture, siege warfare, and so far no spam that does. An expert pianist can play notes faster than the brain can send signals to his hand. Result: if it can't contain exciting sales pitches, spams will inevitably have a different character.

There is rarely a single brilliant hack that ensures success: I learnt never to bet on any one feature or deal or anything to bring you success. The statistical approach is fairly robust, and can tolerate quite a lot of the obstacles to ongoing diagnosis will come from some little startup. Though I have to say, not at all, if you're not. The other way to get a cozy, tenured research job. Founders of successful startups: a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India. Surely at some point. 6x 7% 33. And if the answer is obvious: from a job. You've made something you need to use a more succinct language, and b Microsoft's agenda consisted of stuff they weren't good at. Growth is why startups usually work on technology, or take it away from the rich. She writes: Hilbert had no patience with mathematical lectures which filled the students with facts but did not teach them how to frame a problem and solve it.

If you're really getting a constant number of new customers to existing ones. So I don't think anyone really believes it is the true test of a language is how small it makes your programs. In addition to the technical obstacles all startups face, they'll be going against thousands of years of medical tradition. The inhabitants of fifteenth century Florence included Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Verrocchio, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. We're dealing with one of the rare ideas that generates rapid growth. Probably the most important question for anyone interested in language design, and one that it would be useful to confront directly. Refutation. Think about where credentialism first appeared: in selecting candidates for large organizations. If there are tensions between cofounders we help sort them out. Well, one reason it's bad in practice is that other countries might not agree to slow down with us. The lowest form of disagreement. VCs want to invest in startups, and partly it's yet another consequence of the fact that the founders of Chatterous told me recently that he and his cofounder had decided that this service was something the world needed, so they must be promising something people want.

7% coming out of later stage investors? That sounds about right. Google to do. It may just be one way to do it. They overvalue ideas. In Wright's early plans for the Guggenheim, the right half was a ziggurat; he inverted it to get hot, and you have no more than a week ahead. In architecture and design, you probably need to be hackers to do what hackers do for fun: cook up amusing hacks with your friends. Why don't government officials disclose more about their finances, and why startups do things that ordinary companies don't, like raising money and getting acquired.

You need some kind of competitive game with the spammers. When you're writing a real essay. It's unlikely you could make something better designed. One of the reasons I like being part of this world. If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do are more different than most people realize. Which means, in the sense that there's less demand for them. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be successors both directly, as Roger Bannister did, by lodging the idea in users' minds that a single person could unroll the future for them. They treat iPhone apps the way they speak. Which meant, with current US tax rates, that it bumps into new ideas. The next best, for startups that aren't charging initially, is active users.

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MW Act 1, Scene 13 - Two-Faced

Title: Most Wanted: The Hollywood Killer (A CIU Screenplay)

Main Pairings: Dave x Sam

Other Pairings: N/A

Genre: Full Rewrite

Rating: PG-13 for violence, blood, swearing, alcohol, and sexuality

Summary: Sam, Dave, Rhea, and Reza visit Cheerm, only to find the owner isn’t home... or ARE they?

Previous Scene: Hitting the Beach

Masterlist: Link

INT. CHEERM APARTMENT COMPLEX - DAY

The four of them are standing in the lobby of a small, run-down apartment complex, in front of a call box. Dave scans the apartment listings as Sam taps her foot impatiently.

SAM: This is Cheerm? I thought it was a company.

REZA: For an internet startup, you never have to leave your home, y’know.  (dramatically) The real American Dream!

He pauses expectantly, but neither Sam nor Dave react. After a moment, Rhea lets out a small chuckle.

REZA: Thank you! At least someone around here appreciates me.

Dave finds the Cheerm listing, and buzzes up. A female voice answers.

JESSICA (V.O.): Cheerm HQ!

DAVE: My name’s Dave, I’m with the city. Do you mind if we could chat for a minute?

Sam frowns at him, clearly skeptical. Rhea and Reza exchange a glance. After a pause, the voice returns.

JESSICA (V.O.): Totes! No prob, just punch 2139 into the call box and come on up!

Sam raises an eyebrow. Dave shrugs.

SAM (sarcastically): Look at you, Prince Charming.

DAVE: What can I say? It works.

The elevator opens, and the four of them file in. As it ascends, Rhea attempts to make conversation.

RHEA (to Reza): So, you... uh... have you been out this way before?

REZA: Huh? Uh? Um, yeah, this place is... uh... it’s really... I’ve been here... one time, it’s nice, right?

Dave facepalms at Reza’s awkwardness. Before Rhea has the chance to respond, the doors slide open on the top floor, right across from a door marked ‘CHEERM’ in huge, bright lettering. Dave shrugs.

DAVE: They aren’t exactly subtle...

He knocks on the door. After a second, the door opens narrowly, and a young woman in workout clothes peers through the opening. This is JESSICA GREENE, though at this time we do not know her name. She smiles innocently at the group.

JESSICA: Hi there! Can I help you guys?

RHEA: We... um, or, uh, we’re... 

Dave steps in when he notices Rhea blushing and tripping over her words.

DAVE: I’m Detective Dave Reyes. This is my partner, Marshal Sam Massey, and my colleagues, Reza Fassihi and Rhea Sarkar. What’s your name?

In the background, Rhea does an excited shudder when Dave introduces her as a ‘colleague.’ Jessica smiles apologetically and shrugs.

JESSICA: I’m, uh... Monika. Duh. Sorry, I know I’m a total ditz, right? Did you need something?

Sam frowns.

SAM: Who would we talk to about this ‘Cheerm’ company?

JESSICA: Huh? Oh... yeah, that would be my brother, Chad. He and his friend Todd started this dumb company last year. I can totes give him a message if you wanna tell me what this is all about?

DAVE: The thing is, Monika...

He goes into ‘flirt mode,’ leaning against the door, lowering his voice, and gazing into ‘Monika’s’ eyes.

DAVE: Y’know... I could really use your help on this one. I’d owe you, big time.

JESSICA: Oh yeah? What would you owe me, Mr. Detective?

DAVE: I guess we’d have to find out.

Sam rolls her eyes at Dave’s ridiculous ‘flirt mode.’

SAM: You’re kidding me. This’ll never work...

JESSICA (giggles): Well, if you need to talk to Chad and Todd, they’re down on the beach right now for a brainstorming sesh!

Sam’s jaw drops. Dave smirks at her before continuing.

DAVE: Thanks, Monika. You’re a lifesaver!

RHEA: You’ve been everything!

JESSICA (confused): ...What?

RHEA: Oh my God that was so stupid! I meant to say ‘You’ve been a big help’ or ‘Thanks for everything’ but then I somehow mixed them up and said ‘You’ve been everything’ I’m such an idiot I’m so sorry!

JESSICA: Uh... okay. Thank you.

She forces a smile and closes the door. Rhea sighs and puts her head in her hands.

RHEA: I am so stupid!

REZA: Yeah. I know.

Rhea gives him a look. Reza blanches.

REZA: Wait, no, I didn’t mean- not like that! I just meant, I’m awkwardly stupid too, so I get it! Er, wait! No, I wasn’t calling you stupid! And... yeah, okay, I’ll stop now.

DAVE: I think you just proved your point.

REZA: Guess I’m forever doomed to stammer like an idiot around cute girls.

SAM (sighs): Can we just go find these brainstorming executives? Please?

DAVE: You go on ahead. I’ve got a hunch I want to follow up on.

SAM: Sure you do.

She and Reza head back toward the elevator. Rhea stays, glancing between Sam and Dave for a moment.

SAM: Paparazzi? You comin’?

RHEA: Not right now. I’ve... also got a hunch.

SAM (shrugs): Suit yourself.

The elevator dings, and Sam and Reza enter and descend. After a moment, Dave knocks on the door again. They wait several seconds, with no response.

RHEA: Maybe she... fell asleep?

DAVE: Not likely.

Dave knocks again, and waits for another long moment. Still, nothing happens.

RHEA: Are you, y’know, suspecting something?

DAVE: Possibly...

He draws his gun. Rhea gasps.

RHEA: Are you gonna need that?!

DAVE: Sure hope not.

Dave leans back, then slams his heel through the door. The lock splinters, and he sprints inside, followed a moment later by Rhea. Inside, the room is filled with several computers, routers, and other devices. Jessica stands up against one of the computer towers, holding a handheld device up to it.

DAVE: You! Stop!

Jessica hesitates at Dave’s voice for only a second, then returns to what she was doing. As Dave and Rhea watch, the computer monitor she is standing with winks out, dead. Rhea gasps in recognition.

RHEA: Oh my God, I know what that is! It’s one of those high-powered magnet things they use to erase computers!

DAVE: She’s erasing the evidence! (to Jessica) Stop, don’t do this!

JESSICA (tearfully): I have to! I have to run, or I’m dead!

RHEA: Wait! Please! I know how you feel!

JESSICA: Shut up! I don’t need a lecture from a cop!

As Jessica crosses to the next computer and starts holding the device up to it, Rhea approaches her, showing her empty hands.

DAVE: Rhea! No! You’re just-

RHEA: Look. Monika. I’m not a cop; I’m just a journalist. Barely out of college. A nobody, pretty much.

To Dave’s shock, Jessica actually hesitates, curious about what Rhea is going to say.

RHEA: I’m not-

Rhea pauses, taking a deep breath and quickly composing herself before continuing, more confidently this time.

RHEA: I’m not saying I know who you are. All I can say is that I know the kind of person you are; and that’s someone who knows what she can do. Nothing more; nothing less. I know what it’s like to feel like you’re overlooked, overshadowed.

JESSICA (hesitantly): I... I don’t know what you’re talking about.

RHEA: Let me take a guess. People take you for granted, don’t they? You can spend every day of your life doing everything for them behind the scenes, all the little inconvenient details that help their jobs to keep existing, and the simple “thank you” that you deserve... never comes. So you feel like you have to do something extreme. Because, you’re afraid that if you don’t, you’ll actually... truly... be alone, forever.

There is a long, drawn-out pause. Rhea and Jessica keep their gazes on each other, neither one willing to be the first to look away. Behind Rhea, Dave slowly lowers his pistol. After a moment or two, a single tear drips down the side of Jessica’s face, and she averts her gaze.

JESSICA: I... you... (sighs) It’s too late for me. I can’t change now.

Rhea shakes her head.

RHEA: No. It’s not too late. We can help you. It’s never too late.

Slowly, Jessica starts lowering the magnet, slumping to the floor. Rhea crosses over to her, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. A few seconds later, Dave starts approaching the two of them. Jessica looks up at him, her eyes wet with tears.

JESSICA: I... please...

DAVE (gently): Look, you’re doing the right thing. You’ve made the right choice. But the things you did... you’re still going to have to pay the price. I’m sorry, but right now, I’m gonna need you to come-

To Dave and Rhea’s surprise, Jessica holds out her wrists toward Dave. Her expression has changed, a distinct look of fear now joining the sadness on her face.

JESSICA: I know. Please, Officer, let’s go. Now. Please!

Dave takes a step back, confused and suspicious at the strange request. Rhea looks at Jessica curiously.

RHEA: What is this? Some kind of trick?

Jessica starts shaking her head in frantic desperation.

JESSICA: No trick! I promise! Please, just take me back to the station. Lock me up for life if you have to, just get me away from here!

DAVE: Monika, explain. Now.

JESSICA: You don’t understand, there’s no time! You need to get me away from here, he’s-

With an ominous thud, the power to the building suddenly cuts out, plunging the room into darkness. Dave reflexively draws his pistol, aiming it at Jessica.

DAVE: What is this? What did you do?!

JESSICA (panicked): No! No, no, no... He’s here, you’re too late, he’s gonna kill me!

RHEA: Who?! Monika, what’s going on?

JESSICA: Gavin’s killer. John Tull.

Dave, his eyes still adjusting to the darkness, startles at her words, swiveling his stance around so he and his gun are now facing the entrance. Rhea tenses, backing herself and Jessica up against the wall.

JESSICA: He’s here to kill me.

_______________________

Next: Darkness

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This Mumbai-based Startup Brings Together India’s Lab Suppliers on One Platform

Biomall is a B2B online e-commerce marketplace dedicated to laboratory, life science and diagnostic products. It is India’s first ecommerce website which offers researchers and lab users’ laboratory products directly online using a secured payment gateway. It was established in the year 2016 by Dr. S. Jhaveri, PhD Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell University, USA.

Majority of scientific laboratories in India still follow the traditional system of inviting multiple quotations, followed by indenting, generation of purchase orders and payment to suppliers 30-90 days after delivery. A single purchase-sale cycle thus lasts for months. Even the rate contract system, wherein a vendor is chosen for a particular brand at the start of the financial year, is inefficient as the institute has to rely on a single vendor who might not have stocks readily available and cannot purchase from any other vendor who might have stocks for the required product. Typically a lab buys products from multiple brands so again they need to contact multiple vendors and a lot of time is invested in procuring day-to-day lab supplies. So while a lab in India would take months just to get their supplies; elsewhere laboratories in countries with more advanced purchasing systems would have already completed their project by the time supplies reach the scientists bench in India! This is a critical factor that needs to be addressed immediately else India will further lag behind in terms of innovations. Also, inefficiencies in systems lead to increased costs and so scientists spend not only more time but also more money to purchase lab products!

Through its online portal, Biomall.in is trying to bring a big change in this system, by incorporating easy and convenient online purchase system as against traditional credit based purchases. The advantage is that scientists can search, compare and buy multiple products from different brands in a single order with a “single click” directly from the suppliers. The user does not require to get multiple quotations since all price details are given online along with real-time product availability thereby saving valuable time.

Scientists have a limited research budget for a project and need to manage their purchases within the available funds. On Biomall, the suppliers have provided good discounts on many products including chemicals, regular lab consumables, chromatography columns, etc. This has been possible by:

1.     Connecting scientists directly with the manufacturers/authorized distributors

2.     Elimination of costly field sales representatives

3.     Timely payment to the suppliers and

4.     Low marketing costs.

All these factors in combination have brought down the product cost and this saving has been passed on to the researchers. Thus, by procuring products from Biomall not only valuable time is saved but the researchers also save money thereby making good use of the funds available for R&D.

Dr. S. Jhaveri is a PhD graduate and a successful entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He has done his Ph.D in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in the year 2007 and also done his bachelors in Chemical Technology specializing in Chemistry of Dyes and Intermediates from ICT, Mumbai (formerly UDCT). He has been awarded Dr. Sundar Aggarwal award for outstanding Indian Students entering Ph.D. program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University.

In the year 2012 he started his distribution business for laboratory products under the company Chargen Life Sciences LLP. During the initial 3 years of distribution business, he studied the lab industry market deeply and analyzed the problems faced by laboratories. Based on this analysis and the growing consumer inclination towards e-Commerce, he found an online platform connecting buyers and sellers of lab products to be a perfect solution to tackle the current problems. Thus, in mid-2016, he launched India’s first online marketplace for laboratory products – Biomall.in.

Earlier he worked as an Independent consultant with Universal Consulting, where he carried out market research on impact of new technologies in the knee implant market in India, assessing market feasibility for a Point-of-Care Testing Device in India and UAE. He was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

He has trained mentored and supervised several students. He also lectured in class, graded exams, and conducted office hours for freshman chemistry students in USA. Dr. S Jhaveri believes that passion, hardwork, self-belief and being positive are key mantras to be a successful entrepreneur. We are publishing an interview with him:

Q.: Tell us about the Product / Solution. How did you get your first customer? Explain how you went about the Product-Market Fit Process. Ans: We have developed a customized online portal – www.biomall.in to buy and sell laboratory products worldwide. It hosts 100,000+ products from 150+ brands across 100+ categories – Lab Chemicals, Microbiology, Diagnostics, Chromatography, Genomics, Proteomics, Lab Equipments, Lab Consumables. Laboratory Professionals from life science / biotech companies, pharma companies, academics, hospitals can buy any product required in their laboratories from Biomall.in. We offer digital marketing services to promote the products of Indian manufacturers to laboratories involved in research, testing and diagnostics. In house technical team from science and IT background work together to strategize and execute digital promotion via e-commerce, email, social media, blog, whatsapp and other online media. We also offer services to setup labs from the basics – designing, furnishing and procurement of all kinds of equipments and reagents required in a lab.

When it was launched, we had a different sales model wherein buyers could submit enquiries and get online quotation. We developed the website content as per SEO, so as to get customers via google search. Our first online customer came from Pune, Maharashtra through google search and has been a regular customer till date. Majority of our customers are sourced organically from google even today.

Q.: What is your USP? Ans: The biggest USP is that we are an online platform dedicated only to laboratory, life science and diagnostic products. This separates us from several other marketplaces which sell all kind of products. We give a target customer base to all the sellers who can then use this platform as a good marketing tool as it caters specifically to the scientists, pathologists, medical, pharma & QC professionals.

Also, Biomall acts as a single platform to buy multiple types of lab products from multiple brands in a single order.

It provides the option to buy lab products directly online just by selecting quantity, add to cart and place order by making online payment. Buyers can request for a bulk discount if more than 10 packs are needed. Buyers can also post enquiry for products not found on the portal. This enquiry then gets shared to all registered sellers on the portal who can send an online quote to the buyers as per product availability.

The platform provides a seamless experience to the sellers for managing all orders, enquiries, stock and ongoing offers through their dashboard.

Q.: What were your assumptions when you entered the market, learning that you have? Who in your mind is your ideal customer? Do you have at least one of them signed up? Ans: We thought that considering the response received to online shopping sites like amazon, flipkart, snapdeal, myntra, etc., users in India shall be happy to know about Biomall and buy laboratory products online. Although, most of the scientists like the concept of Biomall, they get constrained by the purchase system followed in their institutes or companies. Nevertheless, we have received many customers from top research institutes like IITs, IISERs, CSIR institutes who prefer to buy chemicals, consumables and other products from our website. Also, many small companies have now begun to order their lab supplies online on Biomall.

An ideal customer for our website would be a scientist who is looking for any lab product, finds it online, compares among different brands, and buy the best suitable. We wish to be the ideal platform for all scientists by offering a complete portfolio of lab products, with detailed information provided on the website and the best delivery service so that they can get their product/s in a hassle free manner.

Q.: What has been your biggest failure as an entrepreneur and what did you learn from it?? Ans: Failures in the past have been about conceptualizing big projects before understanding ground reality

Q.: How are you pricing the Product? What is the logic behind it? What is the model you are following – Free / Freemium / Premium etc. ? Explain your thought process. Ans: We offer different membership plans for suppliers to promote and sell their products on our portal. A free plan is also available to sell stock under clearance sale. Paid membership is available based on the services required by sellers. Prices are decided based on the expense incurred in terms of website maintenance, customer service and marketing service.

Q.: Please tell us about the investors (if any) Ans: Biomall is bootstrapped company and all the investments have come from promoters family business and distribution business of Chargen Life Sciences. However, now we are looking for investors to scale up the business.

Q.: Is there any interesting success story of your startup? If yes, please write about it. ? Ans: We are extremely proud that we have managed to export Indian manufactured products to 35+ Countries via our platform and thus contributing to the Make in India initiative launched by the Government.

Q.: Since inception, give us a sense of the value of business done by your venture? Please explain in detail. (e.g., What is the current turnover? From Launching till date total no. of visitors on website/persons registered/enquiries and enrollment etc.) Ans: The website hosts 100,000+ lab products from 150+ brands across 100+ categories of laboratory, life science and diagnostic products. We have grown from as low as 50 visitors a day to 500 visitors a day. About 5000+ buyers and 500+ sellers are registered with us. Since 2016, we have served 300+ Indian cities and exported to 35+ countries including Middle East, Africa, Europe, USA, South America and Asian countries

Q.: What is the big picture of your startup? Is this Product/service leading to something bigger? If so, how? Ans: Through our online startup, we are trying to bring in the concept of digitalization in the laboratory industry, and also promoting the ‘Make in India’ campaign started by the GOI. Due to the long sales cycle Indian scientists suffer greatly as they do not get products on time. Biomall’s big vision is to reduce the entire sale purchase cycle of lab products so that our scientists can be competitive in the global market when it comes to publishing research at a faster pace. Second, we also want to promote Indian made laboratory products worldwide. India produces good quality lab products but we lack in marketing these products. Biomall aims to change that by producing an excellent marketing platform and making Indian made lab products available to laboratories worldwide.

Also, through Biomall, we have promoted many lesser known Indian manufacturers of laboratory equipment to the global market. Many countries including Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe and America have shown interest in buying lab products from India. They find Biomall as one stop solution to get all of their laboratory needs from India, at good price and quality.

Q.: Who do You Perceive as Your Competition? How do you differentiate yourself with them? Ans: A few of its indirect competitors in India include B2B online portals like Indiamart, trade India which are widely used by sellers to generate leads. Other competitors include B2B e-commerce platforms like Industry buying & Amazon business who provide an online platform for buying all sort of industrial supplies. These sites are however not focused on the lab industry and do not have a wide range of products that Biomall offers. In India Biomall stands as the only comprehensive platform to target the lab professionals through its customized online eCommerce business model and acts as one point of contact for international buyers interested to source their supplies from India.

Q.: What would be your goal to accomplish in the next six months? Any other information you would like to share? Ans: We continue to expand our product portfolio and we learn a great deal from the customers to understand the products in demand and then lookout for quality suppliers for the same. We are very selective on the suppliers that come on-board and only when they pass our internal quality criteria do we invite them to be part of our platform. Our major focus in future is to increase the reach of Biomall in India and worldwide and provide a vast range of products that the scientists can purchase directly from the suppliers via our platform.

In the next 6 months, we plan to invest in logistics and marketing to increase our reach across different cities in India and outside India. To achieve our goals, we are looking for investors interested to fund a growing B2B online startup.

 https://startupsuccessstories.in/this-mumbai-based-startup-brings-together-indias-lab-suppliers-on-one-platform/  

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Machines Can Create Artwork, however Can They Jam

Because the CTO of an utilized pc imaginative and prescient firm, I spend the majority of my time overseeing and honing full-stack AI setups that make use of neural networks and pc imaginative and prescient algorithms to establish and analyze the content material of photos and footage. In my spare hours, I play the sax with my jazz quintet, buying and selling off solos, jams and improvisations with the opposite musicians. It is a course of filled with emotion, surprises and communication. I've at all times seen it as a distinctly human enterprise--one impervious to expertise's usurping ambition. Certainly, for a very long time I noticed AI's viability solely via the lens of its utilitarian benefits. The latest deluge of experiments involving neural networks and creativity--everything from writing poetry and designing mid-century furnishings to producing intentionally non-derivative work and creating runway fashions--has began to vary my view. It has made me wonder if the identical method might be utilized to jazz--and to what finish? Was there any profit to creating an AI robotic, program or agent that's able to passing a jazz Turing take a look at, and is that even conceivable with at present's AI cutting-edge? I researched the subject and spoke with specialists on the nexus of AI and music from academia and enterprise, in addition to with a few of my fellow musicians. Here is what I discovered. Some Music Genres Lend Themselves Higher to AI than Do Others A lot has already been accomplished on the intersection of AI and music technology. Tech giants corresponding to Microsoft, Google, IBM Watson and Sony, together with startups corresponding to Aiva and Amper, have commercially obtainable expertise and companies round AI-generated music. Final summer season, YouTube star Taryn Southern launched I'm AI, an album that was created with the assistance of instruments and expertise from Aiva, Amper, Microsoft and IBM. Likelihood is that a few of the soundtracks you hear in shops, elevators, infomercials and video video games is AI-composed. Some is carried out dwell by orchestras from AI-created scores and preparations. Some is in-studio manufacturing fashion of pop music spewed in ultrapolished type immediately from a pc itself. Regardless of a number of human-intervened exceptions, what you in all probability will not hear in these venues and platforms is AI-generated jazz. That is considerably stunning for the reason that typically sudden end result of algorithms would appear to lend itself to the style's improvisatory nature. Then once more, as any skilled jazz musician or membership proprietor can attest, jazz tends to be a labor of affection for performers. It serves an fanatic area of interest viewers. And it could hardly be anticipated to draw the form of enterprise urgency that auto-soundtracking YouTube content material and video video games does. However there are different challenges as effectively. How Deep Is Your Studying? DeepJazz is a 2016 mission by Princeton pc science scholar Ji-Sung Kim that spews out piano solo variations on Pat Metheny's "And Then I Knew." The mannequin was created utilizing the unique Pat Metheny monitor MIDI file as the info supply, the Keras and Theano machine studying APIs, and a long-term brief reminiscence (LTSM) recurrent neural community. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are well-liked in at present's AI composition as a result of they study from earlier enter by looping and thus backpropagate on the fly. That stated, conventional RNNs are likely to solely work with brief musical phrases. If you happen to're composing something longer than a ringtone, LTSMs come into play as a result of they're capable of have interaction extra reminiscence and work over the course of a whole track, tackling the general construction, verses, bridges, refrains and so forth. With slightly extra finessing of tempo and dynamics, the expansive melodies and hopping chord progressions that DeepJazz produces might actually go for the actual factor should you heard them on the radio, within the grocery store, or on maintain with customer support. But when offered as a pc or human Turing take a look at question--i.e. was this track created by a human or a machine?--maybe not a lot. Because it was solely skilled on a single track, DeepJazz's output can solely ever produce outcomes that sound just like that one track. What's extra, the output reduces the unique guitar, bass, drums and keyboard instrumentation to only piano. Producing improvs from the unique track, with its authentic instrumentation, can be a way more complicated enterprise. In any case, there is a large distinction between the mounted notes of a piano and the extra malleable prolonged tones of the opposite devices usually related to jazz, corresponding to trumpet, trombone and saxophone. "The thing that makes wind instruments so hard for computers is that you're pumping energy into them all the time, so you have continuous control and jazz players are free to use that control very expressively," says Carnegie Mellon pc science professor Roger Dannenberg, who additionally performs jazz trumpet. "It's not just figuring out what notes to play, but how to play them. You have almost infinite flexibility over vibrato, bending the pitch, and even producing sounds that instruments such as piano simply aren't capable of." Stay Aids Past timbre, dwell efficiency with AI "musicians" brings different challenges. No matter musical style, the advert hoc, real-time communication that takes place between musicians through the collective improvisation of dwell jams merely is not there but between machines and people. The acoustics of a room or efficiency venue that have an effect on sound, the vitality of the viewers and, after all, the visible cues shared between musicians can't be accounted for by any present expertise. It could require refined audio recognition that permits machines to listen to and interpret the opposite devices, superior pc imaginative and prescient to choose up on assorted and refined visible cues, and a few option to sign and talk with the human musicians--all synced up with a real-time improvisatory algorithm. The computing energy alone required to assist these operations can be staggering. A lot research--from a robotic marimba to a Nintendo Wii-activated bebop improvisation generator to present music software program mash-ups able to robotic call-and-response solos with human musicians--has been accomplished on this space, however nothing but pulls collectively the common or common AI equal of a worthwhile human jazz musician. It Do not Imply a Factor if it Ain't Bought That Swing Given a few of the analysis and experiments round artwork created with neural networks skilled on present masterpieces, I usually surprise if the identical could be completed with the music of legendary jazz musicians. Is it potential to recreate the superfast virtuosic bebop jazz solos of Charlie Parker or the minimalist precision of Rely Basie's piano and band? Charlie Parker did play notes, so a few of his tunes have been transcribed into sheet music and MIDI already, and a few even fed to deep studying algorithms. However that is nonetheless not sufficient coaching knowledge to output new Charlie Parker solos carried out by machines in ways in which can be compelling and Turing test-proof. Although instruments exist to parse out particular person instrument tracks from songs, they aren't but adequate to untangle recordings of dwell exhibits, which represent a big portion of a jazz nice's oeuvre. "That's another big signal processing and machine learning problem that's a very active area of research, but it's not a solved problem," says Dannenberg. And that is not even taking into consideration subtleties of tempo, timbre, dynamics, stress, launch, drama and storytelling which might be distinctive to every dwell efficiency and recording. You'd in all probability have to create your individual knowledge set from scratch: Get new jazz musicians to play every instrument in each potential Charlie Parker- or Rely Basie-like approach after which prepare algorithms on these recordings. That method is just like what Amper Music has accomplished for different musical genres. It is too late to get customized samples from Parker or Basie themselves, however not so for Joshua Redman or Kamasi Washington. Consider it as movement seize for audio. Do We Want AI Jazz? For now, a few of the most promising analysis utilizing AI and jazz is that underway on the Protection Superior Analysis Tasks Company (DARPA), which is growing jazz-playing robots to review and advance communication between people and machines, one thing that might be as helpful on stage or at a freeway exit clogged with merging autonomous vehicles as it's on the battlefield. When it comes to AI-generated music, that also appears higher suited to extra musical-score-based genres corresponding to film and classical music, or extremely produced and sometimes synthesized and sample-heavy pop music. I am additionally interested in AI and jazz just because it will be helpful to sometime have an on-demand musical accomplice to jam with in a seamlessly lifelike approach any time of the day or night time, not only for pure enjoyment, but additionally for studying. In any case, how significantly better might music college students hone their abilities if they'd AI-based lecturers that might present instruction and suggestions on their enjoying anytime? It could be a boon to music training and make follow much more sensible. We're nonetheless a approach off from both providing. We nonetheless do not have the slightest concept how you can get these jazz AI musicians to have the ability to both play with or detect the presence of "swing," "emotion" and "soul." Extra importantly, can they improvise--zigging when conventional coaching and music idea would have them zag? As my band's drummer places it: "If you're talking about live improvisation, that gets to the ultimate core of what AI is. That's like having a relationship. It has to be 100 percent real." Ken Weiner on sax with a small jazz ensemble. Credit score: Cambron Carter. Regardless of the world's present love affair with machine studying, it might not be the ultimate method for AI-generated music. "Deep learning in jazz has similarly downplayed the crucial rhythmic, timbral, and textural aspects of music," says College of California, San Diego, music professor and saxophonist David Borgo who, moreover being my pal, additionally wrote an interesting chapter in The Routledge Companion to Jazz Research on improvisation and computer systems. "Research in this area has tended to focus on getting computers to play the 'right notes,' but we are still a long way from designing systems capable of the micro and macro temporal, timbral and textural adjustments necessary to groove together and to develop high-level collective improvisation in an unscripted fashion with human musicians (rather than insisting that human musicians improvise with, or groove to, the computer)." In different phrases, even when I'm fortunate to someday get a robo-Charlie Parker on-demand bandmate, it is nonetheless prone to be a one-sided expertise till we get to the holy grail of human-level common AI. Read the full article

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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

It’s the same, but different

We just finished the 8th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The team presentations are at the end of this post.

It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class in most universities was how to write – or pitch- a business plan. As a serial entrepreneur turned educator, this didn’t make sense to me. In my experience, I saw that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers.

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). This new class aimed to mimic the uncertainty all startups face as they search for a business model while imparting an understanding of all the components of a business model, not just how to give a pitch or a demo.

(It’s worth reading the blog post that became the manifesto of the class here as well as what we learned when we first taught it- here.)

Ninety days after we first offered this class at Stanford, the National Science Foundation adopted the class calling it the NSF I-Corps (the Innovation Corps) to train our country’s top scientists how to commercialize their inventions. I-Corps is now offered in 88 universities. The National Institute of Health teaches its version in the National Cancer Institute. (I-Corps @ NIH). (The NIST report on Unleashing Innovation recommended expanding I-Corps and the House just passed the Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act to do just that.) The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps syllabus is the basis for a series of Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship classes; Hacking for Diplomacy, Defense, Energy, Oceans, non-profits and cities.

If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class. The syllabus is almost identical, the teams still get out of the building to do customer discovery every week, then come back to class and present what they learned weekly, etc.

But while it’s the same, it’s different.

After thousands of students taking this class, here are a few ways the class has changed.

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A Great Class Endures Beyond Its Author I’ve always believed that great classes continue to thrive after the original teachers have moved on. While I created the Lean LaunchPad methodology and pedagogy (how to teach the class) and the train-the-trainer course for the NSF I-Corps, the sheer scale and success of the class is due to the efforts of the 100’s of National Science Foundation instructors and the NSF. And while I created the original course, the Stanford class is now led by Jeff Epstein and Steve Weinstein.

To be honest, as I watch other instructors now run these classes, I feel a proud “passing of the torch” though touched by moments of King Lear and Kurosawa’s Ran. Way past my ad hoc activities, the Stanford teaching team has thoroughly professionalized the class.

Expanded Teaching Team In addition to the lead instructors, the Stanford teaching team now includes George John, Mar Hershenson, and Tom Bedecarre, all generously volunteering their time. Each of them brings decades of industry experience to the class. This type of teaching firepower and headcount was necessary as the teaching team expanded the class size to meet student demand.

Class Size For the first few National Science Foundation classes, we taught 24 teams at a time with three instructors. We did it by breaking the class into three separate sections, having all teams together for our lectures and separating into sections of eight teams each when the teams presented. (After painful trial and error, we had discovered that the teaching team could listen to 8 teams present before our brains melted down.)

At Stanford we limited the class to 8 teams – four students per team. However, this year, the class was so oversubscribed, and the quality of the teams applying was so high, the teaching team admitted 14 teams and reverted to the original NSF model of separating into sections. The additional teaching team members made it possible.

Class Velocity/Depth When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Now they’re common buzzwords, and most of the students come in with an understanding of Lean. This head start has allowed the teaching team to accelerate the velocity and depth of learnings past the basics.

Women In past years, the student teams in the Stanford classes were weighted toward men, reflecting the makeup of the applicants. While Ann Miura-Ko was part of the original teaching team, having all male instructors for the last five years didn’t help. After Mar Hershenson joined the teaching team last year, she made an all-out effort to recruit women to apply. A role model as a successful CEO and VC, Mar successfully sparked interest in women students and sponsored women-only lunch sessions, mixers and meetings to introduce them to the class. As you’ll notice from the presentations below, the result was that this year 50% of the applicants and accepted teams were women.

The lessons for me were: 1) the class had been unintentionally signaling a “boys-only” environment, 2) these unconscious biases were easily dismissed by assuming that the class makeup simply reflected the applicant pipeline, and 3) when in fact it required active outreach by a woman to change that perception and bring more women into the pipeline and subsequent teams.

Product/Market Fit Versus The Business Model Canvas My original vision for the class was to use the business model canvas as a framework to teach engineering students all the nine elements of the business model: customer, distribution channel, revenue, get/keep/grow, value proposition, activities, resources, partners and costs. And instead of the traditional income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, discover the key “metrics that matter” for their business model.

While students want to spend their time focusing on product/market fit (who’s the customer and what should we build for them) and building product-centric minimum viable products, I thought that Y-Combinator and other accelerators already did an excellent job of that. My goal was to use the canvas to expose engineering students to other essential aspects of a successful business they may be less familiar with (sales, marketing, finance, operations.)

Admittedly this was tough to do, because in one quarter teams haven’t yet found product/market fit and are loath to move off it until they do. But since my goal was to teach a methodology rather than to run an accelerator, I traded off time on product/market fit for exposure to the rest of the canvas.

If we were designing a curriculum rather than just a single class, we’d offer it as two semesters/quarters – the first searching for problem/solution and product/market fit, and the second half focusing on the rest of the canvas testing feasibility and viability.

As you look at this year’s presentations, you can see the presentations still tend to focus on product/market fit. Obviously, there is no right answer to what and how to teach, and the answer may change over time.

TAs/ Diagnostics/Mentors Our Teaching Assistants keep all the moving parts of the class running. Each years TAs have continued to make the class better (although I must admit it was interesting to watch the TAs remove any uncertainty from what students need to do week-to-week, as I had designed a level of uncertainty into the class to mimic what a real-world startup would feel like.) The teaching team and TA’s have added an enormous number of useful diagnostics to measure student reactions to each part of the pedagogy and the overall value of the class. However, the real art of teaching is to remember that the class wasn’t designed by a focus group.

Finally, the mentors (unpaid industry advisors) who volunteer their time have been professionalized and managed by Tom Bedecarre. Each mentor’s contribution gets graded by the students in the team they coached.

Things That Needed Constant Reminders Every time we slipped up and admitted an all engineering or all MBA team we were reminded by their struggles that successful teams need to be diverse – that they include both innovators and entrepreneurs (typically engineers and MBA’s.)

The same holds true for pushing the students. Every time we slacked off relentlessly direct feedback we saw a commensurate drop in the quality of the teams output.

The Teams In the end, this class is not only about what the instructors try to teach the students but also about whether students processed what we intended for them to learn. Over time, two of our major insights were: 1) teams needed a week to process all they learned, and 2) we needed to teach them how to turn that learning into a story of their journey.

This year all our teams accomplished that and much, much more.

And after 9 years of classes, students still find that this class is the closest thing to being in a real startup.

Take a look at their presentations below.

AgAI

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BeaconsAI

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Equify

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Equipped

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HardHats

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Lemnos

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NanoSense

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Neuro

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NeuroDiversity Nerds

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  Praxis

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Promote.It

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RightFoot

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Topt

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Wanderwell

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Year 2, TED talk assignment

Listen to at least 3 TED-talks. These must be either business related (at least 1) or related to your personal (professional) development. Do NOT use subtitling if that is available…

Give a personal response to the talk in 120 – 140 words.

Give 1 – 3 quotes from each talk and indicate why you chose these.

Ted talk #1 “Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari”

This TED talk came up after finishing my Yale lecture. The subject caught my attention and it seemed like a good follow up on the subject discussed in the lecture I just finished watching. This was the case, however, the TED talk very quickly became hard to watch. The cause being that the speaker, Mr. Harari, started to undermine the severity of the problems faced by today’s youth. The following quote may serve to clarify what I’m trying to say here:

“For the first time in history, more people commit suicide than are killed by crime and terrorism and war put together. Statistically, you are your own worst enemy. From all people around the world, you are most likely to be killed by yourself, which is very good news.”

Suicide is a big problem in our current day, and in many cases it can be directly traced back to a major societal issue brought forward by neoliberalism. This being the lack of meaning people feel today. Nowadays people are task with imbuing there life with meaning by themselves. You are the architect of your own life. This idea is wonderful to some, but dreadful to many. People struggle to find a purpose to life. Where in yesterday’s world purpose was a societal given, this simply isn’t the case anymore, with all its consequences.

Ted talk #2 “The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed | Bill Gross”

In this TED talk, Bill Gross goes over the 5 elements for successful start-ups: timing, the team, ideas, the business model and funding. He explains how his view on the most important element changed over the years. Where previously he though the idea was most important, he soon came to realize that without a great team an idea can’t flourish. Later on we learn his current stance: timing. Timing is of the upmost importance for start-ups. When we look at some of the most successful start-ups out there, the one thing that made them succeed is their timing. As a personal response to this TED talk I must say I agree with Mr. Gross. I think timing is very important for a start-up, but I don’t think that it is timing alone. A combination of timing, a great team and a good idea is what can lead to a start-ups success.  

“I believe that the startup organization is one of the greatest forms to make the world a better place.”

“If you take a group of people with the right equity incentives and organize them in a startup you can unlock human potential in a way never before possible. You get them to achieve unbelievable things.”

Ted talk #3 “Two reasons companies fail -- and how to avoid them | Knut Haanaes”

Knut Haanaes begins with an example of a company that for a long time dominated their respective market, and then all of a sudden vanished in just a couple of months. The company was called “Facit”, a Norwegian company that manufactured mechanical calculators. The reason for the companies demise was their failure to adapt. In the last few months engineers at the company would test the accuracy of their own mechanical calculators with cheap, electrical calculators manufactured in Japan. To succeed, a company needs a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Exploration being the innovative drive and the quest to find new, revolutionary things. Exploitation being taking the knowledge that already exist and making ‘good’ better. An example of exploitation would be making sure the trains run on time, whilst exploration would be inventing a new type of train. Mr. Haanaes continues by explaining how exploitation works for short-term success, while exploration focusses on the long term. Balancing is difficult, because there are so many traps that keep us where we are. Two of them being:

The perpetual search trap. We discover something, but we don’t have the patience or the persistence to get at it and make it work. So instead of staying with it we create something new. Examples are not limited to companies, take a look at education systems, health care or even defense. They change so often that the previous changes don’t even have time to settle and thus don’t get the chance to properly succeed.

The success trap. When we know something well it is hard to change.

“Here are two reasons why companies fail: they only do more of the same, or they only do what’s new”

“Exploitation is taking the knowledge we have, and making good better. Exploitation is about making our trains run on time. It’s not risky, in the short term. But if you only exploit you’ll lose in the long term.“ I chose these two quotes as I view them as a good summary of Haanaes his thought. With the first quote he answers the title of the TED talk right away and, in doing so, grabs the viewers’ attention with both hands. The next quote I viewed as necessary to explain what Haanaes meant with exploitation, as I experienced some confusion when first hearing the term.

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Financial Elements to Understand for Startup Entrepreneurs

If you are a young entrepreneur or a startup, we commend you. Building a business is one of the hardest things ever tried. This article will share some of the financial lessons usually young entrepreneurs get while starting a business. You won’t repeat some of the most common financial mistakes that many young entrepreneurs make.

#1: Be open and honest with investors and lenders:

Nothing can get people in trouble more than dishonesty and lack of communication in a business – this is true for initial-stage businesses looking to raise money or take out a loan. If you operate in the shadows and secrets, people will not trust you. You can also lose faith in the source of capital if you can’t or don’t want to disclose the numbers that made your company successful.

#2: Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best:

Bad things happen to good people, and we need to be prepared for them. If you are financially unwilling to enter the world of entrepreneurship, don’t quit your job until you are ready. There’s no reason in the world to sacrifice your income when you can work on your side project until you have some traction. We recommend having at least three months of living expenses in an emergency savings account for most singles.

#3: Learn to manage the cash flow:

One of the advisors recently shared the wisdom with and said, “There are three reasons why a business fails: they run out of money, they run out of money, and they run out of money. Cash flow is the single most important financial metric to master in running a business. If you don’t know where your money is coming from or where it’s going, you’re taking a risk. It is very important to have a budget and stick to it.

#4: Set yourself clear goals and steps:

When you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, it’s easy to waste time rethinking your concept. In fact, instead of testing your concept with potential customers, dreaming up your idea is a waste of time. To reduce this risk, set measurable milestones and deadlines in advance and track your progress. What is the difference between a goal and a stage? The main stage is like a post with road signs to your destination, showing you how to handle time.

#5: Track Your Spending:

A lot happens when you first start a business. Tracking their expenses seems secondary to creating a business plan, talking to clients, etc. But it’s very important to have a system to track your expenses each month, so you don’t have to look for information when you need it. There’s nothing more frustrating than searching for financial information or sorting through paperwork, or preparing financial statements for bankers during taxation when you don’t have the information. So instead of wasting time on the backend, do yourself a favour and listen from day one.

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How Marie Kondo Built Her Million-Dollar Empire

Decluttering is a big topic in today’s world. Whether it’s your thoughts or your belongings - minimal living is making a comeback like no other. In a world where everyone wants to start living a simple life, Marie Kondo has emerged as the face of making people’s lives easier and happier than ever before.

Founder of the ‘KonMari’ method where she encourages people to let go of anything that doesn’t spark joy, the professional tidier has created a million-dollar empire for herself.

Interested to find out how one can turn tidying apartments and neatly folding T-shirts into a million-dollar empire? We’ll how Marie Kondo’s passion for tidying up turned her into a global brand.

How Marie Kondo Started Her Tidying Journey

Tidying homes isn’t a regular way to become a global celebrity. So how did Marie Kondo achieve this?

Marie Kondo started off at a pretty young age. When she was a child, she would often be the first person to volunteer for things like cleaning up and organizing. This is where her passion for decluttering began. She started falling in love with the feeling that came after a successful cleaning-up session and she wanted to help others feel the same way - which is why she decided to turn her passion into a business model.

She first started off by working as a professional tidier for her own friends at the age of 19. Slowly, the word spread when people realized just how good she was at her job. Soon enough, she had a long waitlist of people wanting to get their homes organized by her.

Within a few months, she became a celebrity all over Japan. This prompted her to pursue this career full time and she ended up opening her very own organizing consultancy for people all over the country. Her method of tidying up and organizing was a huge hit in Japan where people lived in smaller homes and needed to be a little more efficient with all the space they had. And of course, that’s where Kondo’s incredible skills came in.

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How the Marie Kondo Brand Was Built

As her tidying business grew, Marie Kondo gradually turned it into a global brand. Here are the different ways that Kondo managed to build up her brand, her global popularity, and her fortune.

Books

Marie Kondo’s success started with her writing a book. Her first book titled ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up’, was published in Japanese and was a huge hit in the country. The book became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller, moving 8 million copies with tons of people posting videos on social media platforms, showing how Marie Kondo had helped them declutter their homes and workspace. The book has been translated and published in over 30 countries.

She continued releasing more books to expand on her organizational methods. Together, all of her four titles have sold over 11 million copies in 40 countries.

Training Consultants

Marie kondo developed her business further through her consultancy website. She started offering training sessions for people who were interested in becoming KonMari consultants all over the world. These consultants were personally trained by Kondo herself.

After months of seminars, lectures, and exams, these consultants are officially certified to go ahead and help others spark joy in their homes with the KonMari method.

Netflix Series

Naturally, all the books and all the TV appearances led to this powerhouse of tidying up landing her own show on Netflix which started airing in 2019. The show was called ‘Tidying Up With Marie Kondo’ where she connected with families that needed help decluttering and helped them organize their homes the KonMari way.

The show put Marie Kondo on the mainstream radar with people finding the show hilariously wholesome and fascinating at the same time. In fact, in 2019, her fame got to the point where Marie Kondo was actually invited to attend the Oscars! Pretty cool for someone who cleans up for a living, right? And while Kondo hasn’t revealed exactly how much she has made from the show, it’s rumored that the show is being renewed for a second season.

Original Products

Marie Kondo’s online empire includes a popular shop, which is filled with items that Kondo herself likes to use every day. Her products cover all kinds of household items, from watering cans to beehouses.

In 2019, she released a capsule collection of leather bento-box-inspired cases with Cuyana, and recently, she also started offering $89 storage sets on her website, which have since sold out - and predictably so. But even with her online store, she encourages people to buy absolutely what they need and limit their purchases only to things that spark joy.

Media Appearances

Right after her book became a bestseller, Marie Kondo started receiving tons of requests for TV appearances. She even developed her own video series, teaching her viewers tips and tricks from the KonMari method.

She soon became a celebrity all over the world and by 2015, she was featured in magazines like ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Vogue’ and to top it all off, the same year she went on to earn a spot in TIME’s list of ‘100 most influential people in 2015’.

Kondo featured on segments in the Ellen Show and Good Morning America, where she left people stunned with the kind of tips and tricks she had to offer. With Kondo, cleaning up felt and looked like it was magic.

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Online Course

Marie Kondo offers a 10 part course from her website, teaching people the fundamentals of tidying up. The course includes things like folding methods, checklists, and a KonMari 101 video.

What is the KonMari Method?

So, what exactly is the KonMari method? Well, Kondo was inspired by the Shinto religion, which emphasizes rituals and tidying up spaces as spiritual practices. This is how she treats the process of tidying up as well.

The KonMari method places importance on quality rather than quantity. The core of her approach is understanding the things that make us happy or ‘spark joy’ and if they don’t, we respectfully eliminate them from our lives. More than just tossing out stuff, Kondo asks declutterers to thank objects for their service before throwing them away.

And with this method, Kondo’s name practically transformed into a verb. When someone says that they’re going to ‘Marie Kondo’ their home, it means that they’re going to declutter and simplify their living in a way that brings joy into their lives.

How Marie Kondo Turned Tidying Into Something Far Greater

Her fans, who call themselves ‘Konverts’ have described the KonMari method as a meditative practice where they reflect on their possessions and ask themselves what it is in life that truly makes them happy. Whether it’s feelings or possessions, Marie Kondo encourages people to let go of anything that does not incite a positive feeling.

This means Marie Kondo offers her fans so much more than just an approach to cleaning up. Sure, her various tidying hacks are super helpful, but her whole philosophy offers more than that. Marie Kondo teaches people how to find happiness through simplicity.

This is achieved through her practices like giving thanks to objects before you get rid of them, or making sure that everything you own has a joyful purpose. Marie Kondo is so much more than a tidying expert - she’s helped people to discover a new source of happiness and fulfillment in their overly cluttered lives.

How Much is Marie Kondo Worth?

As of 2021, Marie Kondo’s net worth is around $8 million. Which is a huge milestone for someone who started their business at the age of just 19.

Ever since her brush with fame, Kondo has moved to LA with her family where she runs her million-dollar empire, occasionally flying out to different countries to help people organize their homes. In addition to her latest Netflix series, the organizer has also successfully released her fourth book titled ‘The Life-Changing Method of Tidying Up’ where she teaches her readers a room-by-room approach to letting go of the clutter in their lives.

Kondo also regularly writes about her method on her website's blog to really connect with her audience in every way possible. She’s got authored numerous books, spoken at major events, starred in an international series, and become a household name. Pretty impressive for someone who could hardly speak a word of English when she started her career.

Conclusion

Considering all of this, it really looks like Marie Kondo is only getting started. She has single-handedly stirred up the home organization market - most of which is dominated by her practices and methods. And if things keep progressing the same way, it’s safe to expect that Marie Kondo will remain the face of organization and joy for a long time to come.

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AS ONE OF THE TABOOS A VISITOR FROM THE FUTURE WOULD HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GET A CHECK WITHIN A WEEK BASED ON A HALF-PAGE AGREEMENT

You would not believe the amount of stock to give him. When you hit something that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way the classic airline pilot manner is said to derive from Chuck Yeager. But in fact it was the basis of Amsterdam's prosperity 400 years ago. Tip: for extra impressiveness, use Greek variables. Which is to say that it's heretical. The right tools can help us avoid this danger. And as you go down the food chain the VCs get rapidly dumber.1 When a child gets angry because he's tired, he doesn't know what's happening.

A silicon valley has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo. Related fields are where you go looking for trouble. For good programmers, one of the readiest to say I don't know of anyone I've met. What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM every night, seven days a week. Politicians are caught between a rock and a hard place here, however: make the capital gains rate low and be accused of creating tax breaks for the rich, or make it high and starve growing companies of investment capital. The influence of fashion is not nearly so great in hacking as it is in painting. It's like light from a distant star. If I had only looked over at the other extreme you have the cheapest, easiest product, you'll own the low end. Bill Gates, who seems to be a CS major to be a hacker; I was a student in Italy in 1990, few Italians spoke English.

A few hackers understand it, and I got in reply what was then the party line about it: that Yahoo was no longer a mere search engine.2 This is their way of weighing you. Forty-two years later you'll be making $4. Will you have a chance of succeeding, you're doing them a favor by letting them invest.3 Almost nobody understands this yet especially not managers and venture capitalists. You're better off starting with a blank slate in the form of a small town. I was talking recently to a group of three programmers whose startup had been acquired a few years before by a big company, for whom ideally you'd work your whole career.

Now how are you doing compared to the rapacious founder's $2 million. This works in America, but it feels young because it's full of rich people.4 The way to do that is to implement it. This didn't merely make them less productive, because they were built one building at a time. So hackers start original, and get original. Should you take it? Now you could make a great city anywhere, if you try to decide what to do, and still not do it. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are all nearly impossible to fire. So what makes a place good to them? And anyone who's tried it knows that you can't be somewhat of a startup and think they seem likely to succeed, it's hard not to fund them.5

Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. This essay is derived from a guest lecture at Harvard, which incorporated an earlier talk at Northeastern. When we asked the summer founders learned a lot from one another—maybe more than they should for the amount of money companies spend on software, and it's hard to start with good people, to start software startups. Even a lot of things e. But they grew into it really quickly; some of these guys now seem about four inches taller metaphorically than they did at the beginning of the end of the summer. Checks instituted by governments can cause much worse problems than merely overpaying. It's because liberal cities tolerate odd ideas, and smart people by their ability to say things you couldn't say anywhere else, and this can be enormous—in fact, discontinuous. Are People Really Scared of Prefix Syntax?6 If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it.

7% of the upside, while an employer gets nearly all of it.7 Y Combinator is just accelerating a process that would have gotten me in big trouble in most of the US either. Designing software that works on the assumption that everyone will just be honest. The mathematicians don't seem bothered by this. In hacking, this can literally mean saving up bugs.8 Otherwise I just worked. If you find yourself in the computer science department, there seems to be a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists seem to be bad ways of using them. Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. In every period of history, the answer is almost certainly no. In it he said he worried that he was fundamentally soft-hearted and tended to give away too much for free. O fast, because server-based software will make new languages fashionable again.

It might dilute the value of safe jobs. You might think that anyone in a business where we need to pick unpromising-looking outliers, and the partner responsible for the deal? Gradually the details get filled in. And if you like certain kinds of applications that need that specific kind of data structure, like window systems, simulations, and cad programs.9 It would be too easy for clients to fire them.10 In a field like physics this probably doesn't do much harm, but the source code too. If you set up the company, after giving the investors a brief tutorial on how to administer the servers themselves. We did.

Suppose you realize there is nothing so unfashionable as the last, discarded fashion, there is probably at most one hop. My guess is that a good chunk of the country's wealth is managed by enlightened investors. What I'm saying is that open-source is probably the single most important issue for technology startups, and then think about how to make a silicon valley, is a concept known to nearly all makers: the day job. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy.11 Startups are marginal.12 They just smelled wrong. At the very least we want options. Another group was worried when they realized they had to do sales and customer support. Yahoo's market cap then was already in the billions, and they were still worrying about wasting a few gigs of disk space. This should be the m. What groups are powerful but nervous, and what ideas would they like to suppress? In one culture x is ok, and in most of Europe it's not.

Notes

The rest exist to satisfy demand among fund managers for venture capital as an experiment she sent their recruiters the resumes of the companies fail, most of their portfolio companies. When an investor in!

The person who wins. Could you endure studying literary theory, combinatorics, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be high, and we did not start to pull ahead in the sense that they take away with dropping Java in the last step is to try to ensure there are certain qualities that help in that category. I was as bad an employee as this. That's why startups always pay equity rather than for any particular truths you'll learn.

You leave it to colleagues.

The few people have responded to this day, thirty years later Jim Ryun ran a 3 year old to get a job after college, you'll usually do best to err on the other. I had no idea whether this would be unfortunate.

These were the seven liberal arts. At first I didn't like it if you agree prep schools do, and graph theory. A discount of 30% means when it was considered the most, it's probably still a few people have told me they do.

We fixed both problems immediately. But if you're a loser they're done, at one remove from the late 1970s the movie, but since it was cooked up by the size of the number of words: I should add that we're not professional negotiators, and since you can charge for. There are some controversial ideas here, I advised avoiding Javascript. Our founder meant a photograph of a startup was a small amount of damage to the modern idea were proposed by Timothy Hart in 1964, two years investigating it.

If you're a YC startup you can do it now. This is almost pure discovery. 107.

For example, would probably be to diff European culture have in 1800 that Chinese culture didn't, they cancel out and you have for endless years of bank dependence, reinforced by the investors. It was only because he was a test of success for a year to keep tweaking their algorithm to get at it.

Though you should never sell i.

The existence of people we need to. Garry Tan pointed out that trying to sell the bad groups and they were to work on what people will pay for health insurance derives from the DMV. Since they don't yet have any of the company goes public. It should be your compass.

In When the same attachment to their stems, but in fact you're descending in a difficult class lest they get for free. But they've been trained.

After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of school.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Sarah Harlin for reading a previous draft.

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The Knowledge and Awareness I have Gained from the 2 Lecture Series

Gee 16 (Entrepreneurial Mind)

This content was all about the things that I learned in the 2 day lecture series with a topic about L1- The Intellectual Property Rights and Technology by Dr. Gamaleila A. Dumancas. L2- Transfer Team Formation and Resources shared by Ma'am Karen H. Lacadin. These talk has opened new ideas that deepened my knowledge in engaging into businesses and expose myself to multiple key elements of innovation and entrepreneurship through the unique opportunity of seeing and hearing insights and viewpoints from diverse speakers in varied industries.

I have always thought that "businessmen's are successful in the field when it can establish another business franchise". And there it comes the lecture series, as I've lessen to the discussion my questions are slowly answered and it lead to clear some of my understanding into a big misconception. It is said that aiming for further business development and commercialisation will go through a transfer of scientific findings from one organization to another, a process called technology transfer in which this process will work by identifying new technologies, protecting technologies through patents and copyrights, and most importantly, forming development and commercialisation strategies such as marketing and licensing to existing private sector companies or creating new startup companies based on the technology. Moreover, contrary to what I believe, publishing research will not guarantee that someone will notice your discovery and continue developing it into a tangible product that will reach the end user. As the speaker previously mentioned, technologies first need to be developed and that is achieved through collaborations with industrial partners. The end goal of the commercialization strategy is to establish a commercial relationship with another party.

Now for the second day of lecture, these are one of the lines I've learned through the webinar from last week "start up business ideas originated to resolve pressing issues in a community". Which is exactly right! The need to look at problems not as something that is impossible to address, but as something that we can accomplish in the next five or ten years is essential in being an entrepreneur. Every single social problem is an opportunity. And we know these as we have witness it's outcomes today because there are social entrepreneurs working on every identified social issue, with a bright insights in a successful way. That's why, a business should be established to support local products and potentials, and starting a business should aim to build a collaborative community instead of leading a business to compete other existing business in the area. To be able to grow and succeed, come up with a solution to issues and problems faced by the community and other existing business in your target places. In addition, it is clearly emphasized by the speaker to choose your team wisely. In forming a team choose those who are competent, capable, skillful, adaptable and determined people. Choosing a team should be done more carefully and throughly to make sure that a team you will work to will understand the reasons and goals of your business, with common goals and perspectives, and balanced personalities.

Start-up may be small companies but they play a significant role in economic growth of our society. Both speakers have their own experiences of starting a business. Be it a success or a failure, the most important thing is they have learned something by doing things others don't do. With their experience and learning they are able to share wisdom and ideas that would be a great help in leading us to explore and embrace different institutions that supports innovation and entrepreneurship.

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT PHOTOS

A few months ago, the rich have gotten a lot more respect when I said, but he wouldn't have returned at all if he'd realized Microsoft was going to die if they didn't. We tend to write it in. What would make the email system rebound. They were atoms of drawing, but arranged randomly. There are answers to that question. It's quite possible there will be more of a problem this will be what it usually is between coworkers, so is the relationship between meanness and success are inversely correlated. Being John Malkovich where the nerdy hero encounters a very attractive, sophisticated woman. I'd feel like something was terribly wrong. And this skill is so hard on themselves. Make Wealth May 2004 This essay is derived from a guest lecture in Sam Altman's startup class at Stanford. If you believe an investor has committed to fund you in return for the unique privilege of sharing his office with no other humans, he had to commit to them till they also commit to you. And that required very different skills from actually doing the startup.

If you pitch your idea to a random location in central Asia. But when I went to, the best way to prepare yourself to start a startup, not a threshold. And why did one want to do, rather than carry a single unnecessary ounce. But the way they insisted on calling themselves a media company instead of a production language he uses a pirated copy. There are companies that will get last place in the world you'd want to raise. You have to be able to bear a good deal they'd want it all to themselves, but usually there's a bigger offer coming, or perhaps even realize what they're looking for a specific answer, and feel cheated if you don't have to live at the office in a big program. Probably people have always overestimated the importance of where one goes to college. But what really matters is domain expertise.

Instead of desktop applications, you'd run Java applets delivered from a server. And this is not so much the better. Musicians often seem to work very hard and not end up with an idea that has turned out to be will depend on what we can deliver. It's often mistakenly believed that medieval universities were mostly seminaries. In a good startup founder. An idea from one area might spark a great discovery in another. They wanted yellow. This plan collapsed under its own weight. Almost nobody understands this yet especially not managers and venture capitalists. Because Boston investors were so few and so timid, we used to pay a lot for? 5% of those already outstanding in return for government contracts, or rich parents who get their children into good colleges by sending them to private schools that in effect hack the college admissions process.

All of you guys already have the first two. Joe's has good burritos. Afterwards I realized it wasn't luck. And if you have a majority of the board through a series A. Even companies you think of using Lisp in a startup you feel like a little bit of debris blown about by powerful winds. If our hypothetical company making $1000 a month. There probably aren't more than a few months. Even you yourself, unless you're sure your money will be the best ones were languages designed for their own authors to use, like English.

I'm not saying friends should be your compass. If I didn't know what language our software was so complex. So maybe I'll try not bringing books on some future trip. In theory. In fact most of the world in verse, it inevitably turns into incantation. It means arguments of the form x meets y. One group got an exploding term-sheet from some VCs. I had to start treating us like actual consultants, and calling us every time they wanted something changed on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but might even exacerbate them. Wars make central governments more powerful, and dangerous.

The really painful thing to recall is not just that it's more straightforward. Every startup's rule should be: we're going to make an x that doesn't suck though. Perl, and the weather is still fabulous. And yet for most of Octopart's life, the point where it was considered the most important factor in deciding between success and failure, which in practice ends up meaning blurry. And in addition there's sometimes a cascading effect. It's also true that there are huge variations in the rate at which reputation spreads by word of mouth online than our first server; and if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the other differences between startups and money, it was bad programmers. If someone broke into ours, it could be, and I know it's a problem that founders keep control of their companies for longer. Vertically integrated companies literally dis-integrated because it was so rare for so long the large organizations in a society where I was when a friend asked if I'd heard Steve Jobs had cancer.

And after having spent their whole lives to jump through in school. I've learned a lot in common, you'd also find they agreed on a lot of competition for mediocre ideas, because you can write the first version of a tree that in the group above you in the real world. American teenager may work at being popular. Back when life was more precarious, people used to ask me how many people our startup had, and I haven't started it a few days. But is that more important than ability: I would not want to move there. It's hard to say at the time what they are talking about and are years behind in their thinking is a fallacy: that the product is only moderately appealing. And companies offering Web-based applications. But it's not necessarily a problem. Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, David Hornik, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond and Bob van der Zwaan for reading drafts of this. Investors have a deep understanding of what work is, the highs are also very high. If your product seems finished, there are all kinds of excuses for delaying their launch. University Press, 1983.

Thanks to John Collison, Patrick Collison, and Ron Conway for reading a previous draft.