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Unicorns are companies that have a valuation of one billion dollars or more.

Heimlich Maneuver is a simple life-saving technique to help someone who is choking due to obstructed airways. To perform Heimlich maneuver, stand up behind the person, grab him by the belly button, and pull your hands back, applying a an upwards force. Created pressure will expel the foreign object from your lungs.

In the US, teens are integrated just like adults. For many reasons teens falsely confess because cops can lie to teens, even to intellectually impaired teens. Teens are more susceptible to social influence. The police make the person feel as if denials are pointless, and confession is the only option. The police will try to be the suspect’s friend and will claim to show some leniency if confessing-- which persuades them even more to falsely confess.

Parmar paints a picture of a patient that has no phone minutes or phone access. She takes the bus because she cannot drive, and she has disability family members or young children to take care of. This scenario is the reason why there are no appointments. The patient shows up when she wants and is able to.

According to Tara Smith, there are a lot of things that people can do. One simple thing, among many that she mentions, is by making vaccines normalized in our society. In most cases, vaccination is only heard about when a bad reaction occurs.

You are not alone. There are others who most likely have similar feelings to you.

Medhora states that the meaning of life is that you are a self-replicating organism that started from a couple of amino acids. Every organism that’s managed to survive and procreate has resulted in us.

Earnin is using the smart phone to analyze whether their users are actually working or not, and therefore able to trust their users to pay the money back. Traditional loan businesses have no visibility like that and therefore have to charge very high fees to pad their loses.

The restaurant was being foreclosed and so Bernard and some friends acquired it. This would become his first failed business later on.

Conferences can be very lucrative businesses, but you have be good at marketing, economics and logistics.

Avoid union labor and catering, and don't spend money on things that don't matter, like name tags. Plan that it would take a year or two to get where sponsors are willing to sponsor your event.

Start small, scrappy, and hustle.

Founders get so busy talking, they don't spend any time listening to their customers, missing key insights in the process.