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Saturday links: communities coming together

Abnormal Returns

wsj.com) A startup has created carbon negative structural panels. bakadesuyo.com) Numbers are persuasive up to a point. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. (grist.org) Environment What's to explain 2023-24's anomalous temperatures? yale.edu) What if natural carbon sinks stop 'sinking'?

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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A Billion Dollars isn’t Cool

The Irrelevant Investor

When The Wall Street Journal first published "The Billion Dollar Startup Club" in February 2015, 84 companies had the rare unicorn status. These numbers, which felt crazy at the time, seem quaint compared to today. Today there are 1,000 of 'em. A private company with a billion-dollar valuation used to be special. Now it's ordinary.

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NOW 2018 | China and the Race for Artificial Intelligence

Brown Advisory

has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation.

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NOW 2018 | China and the Race for Artificial Intelligence

Brown Advisory

has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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The 16 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. There are tons of online business ideas for women at home, but one that offers lots of flexibility and low startup costs is running an online store. Bookkeeping and accounting. Learn more about starting a photography business.

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