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How Does An Epipen Work To Help With A Severe Allergic Reaction?

During anaphylaxis the immune system produces biochemical product that makes airways swollen and make fluid leaks from your blood vessel to your lungs. Epinephrine constricts the vessels, reduces swelling, and increase the blood pressure, causing the bronchi to dilate so you can breath again. Epinephrine is considered the major life-saving medicine for anaphylaxis.


Who Is Alexis Ohanian?

Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder and managing partner of Initialized Capital and a co-founder of Reddit.


Why Are Redheads Always Pale?

It’s because the variants that can make you have lighter hair also make the pigment of your skin lighter.


Is It Possible To Travel To The Past?

In Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, it is possible. But, there are some that argue that even though it’s permissible under strange conditions in relativity, the rest of physics may forbid it.


Where Did The Name “Crazy Wisdom” Come From?

People may be familiar with the term if they’re involved in the spiritual world. It’s also known as divine madness. It’s an ultimate productivity hack that makes a person question the fundamental nature of reality.


What Is Curiosity Based Reinforcement?

It is a developmental psychology concept that rewards one for making predictions that do not fit with what one already knows.


Does A Fund Need To Invest In A Unicorn Startup To See Good Returns?

It helps but is not a requirement, depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

All of Dave's early winners were between a 10 to 20 x return on investment, about a 3x return on his overall portfolio, with an investment return period of around seven or eight years.

With 500 Startups, they aimed to find a "unicorn" only 1-2% of the time, but given that low probability of that even, their portfolio size needed to be a minimum of 50 to 100 companies to even have a shot at that.

So when thinking about investment, you need to know what return multiple you are trying to hit, how likely your companies are to return, and then you would know whether or not you need a unicorn to do it, or how many unicorns at that.


How Does The Ceo Of Chipotle Spend His Day?

2/3 of Mr. Niccol's time is spent making sure Chipotle is executing today against the strategy that will drive the business culture and result in more engaged and more excited about the work employees.

1/3 is spent on what's next - both immediately around the corner and business that is a few years away. Sometimes he also allocates time to deliberately look at the far future, 5 to 10 years out.


How Can You Be Happier In Life?

It's in our human nature to always want to chase more, to look up, to compare our success to someone else who has more. You will be a lot happier if you stop caring about the reward, and enjoy the journey.


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