We like this post by NfX that describes what great founders do in a downturn.

According to the post, "in a downturn, the wise Founder will know the first action needed is a pivot of the mind. The CEO’s psychology is the greatest point of leverage in a company’s success or failure."

Read about eight mind shifts of CEOs of companies that survived, then thrived, despite downturns.

One of the most liked presentations among all HATCH! FAIR activities was a talk about the concept of "Authentic Demand", by Merrick Furst from FlashPoint (Georgia Tech).

He revealed the critical importance of the concept for all entrepreneurs. And, whilst principles are always true, regardless of your external environment; today, in the face of a pandemic with broad restrictions effecting every business, timeless truths should resonate even more...no?

What do you think? Watch the video and comment below!

AN EXCLUSIVE "SLICING PIE" WEBINAR
Slicing Pie 101: Using Equity to Grow Your Startup
Hosted by Mike Moyer
(03 April at 12:00 Central Daylight Time USA 

Indochina time:04 April  00:00  (this converts to April 3rd, at 12 midnight)

​Gigaom published an interview on the topic of "Edge Computing".

Learn the four key mistakes to avoid when evaluating and implementing Edge Computing solutions.

"This free 1-hour pre-recorded webinar video from GigaOm Research brings together experts in Edge Computing, featuring GigaOm analyst Ned Bellavance and special guest from Scale Computing, Dave Demlow, Vice President of Product Management."

Source: GigaOm, which offers news, analysis, and opinions on startup companies, emerging technologies, and other technology related topics. It was started by Om Malik in San Francisco, California.

Startup Commons, "the Ultimate Startup Knowledge Library Made For You By Ecosystem Experts" has decided to open and make all Startup Commons online innovation entrepreneurship curriculum courses globally available for free to create an opportunity for anyone from anywhere in the world, to be better prepared for the positive opportunities during and after the virus pandemic.

Use the code STAYATHOME to get 100% discount for:
Growth Academy for Business Creators
Growth Academy for Support Providers
URL: https://knowledge.startupcommons.org/

Startup Commons has developed the innovation entrepreneurship curriculum fully as an ‘open source’ resource, "with the aim to spread this content faster than COVID-19 and eventually help as many people as possible to overcome this hard economic situation".

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Combat COVID-19 with product prototypes, coding, user experience design, and business or social impact models at Hack for Wuhan​


Date 
2020-03-06 09:00 ~ 03-08 09:00
 
The event is organized by 开源社 , wuhan2020 and Datawhale  

Details
The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 has such huge influence that it has developed into a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). 

According to the statistics up to February 16 at 19:00, there were a total of 69285 confirmed cases globally, with the number of cured reaching at 9778 and died at 1669.

Despite the difficulties, warm-hearted actions and activities are witnessed during this winter: the ongoing and continued dedication of numerous volunteers, the donation of urgent and necessary materials and supplies nationwide and worldwide, the highly-effective medical infrastructure construction of Huoshenshan Hospital and Leishenshan Hospital, and the support of medical teams from the other provinces of China. 

In this fight against the epidemic, technical support plays an essential role. Chen Yueliang, an official with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, once urged tech companies to develop applications for public welfare, which, in his opinion, is “more helpful than donating even one billion yuan".

We have endeavored to encourage more people into the development of applications and apply the power of technology into this race against the disease.

A 5K-Star Community, An Anti-Coronavirus Battle
In January 2020, a group of enthusiastic developers founded an open source community named Wuhan2020 on GitHub, which is aimed to collect the information of hospitals, hotels, factories, logistics, donations, precaution, therapies, dynamics, etc. Through unified collection and publication process, all parties could share the information, and the social resources could be effectively allocated.

"Trust, Transparency, Technology" we built Wuhan2020 to achieve these values.
This way of collaboration proved effective. On GitHub, Wuhan2020 was among trending repositories, and has gained over 5,000 stars.

While gaining widespread attention, Wuhan2020 connects over 3,000 volunteers worldwide, including developers, product managers, designers, data analysts, information collectors, translators, media workers, and students. By staff's working together under the well-arranged mechanism, this community managed to build a digital defensive line against the epidemic.  If you want to join us in this battle and contribute in the open source way, here comes an opportunity, as follows. 

Hackthon Awaiting You 
As volunteers and developers of Wuhan2020 community, we would like to invite you to our Hackathon: Hack for Wuhan, on 27th and 28th February, 2020. Let us hack together against the global crisis.

We believe hackathon can not only inspire the next billion dollar unicorns, but also help unite mission-driven developers and innovators to combat an international outbreak crisis.

We are looking forward to the novel designs, prototypes, business or social impact models. We believe that all efforts will make a profound impact.

We will provide professional technical supports to your inspiration, and you will have the opportunity to work with mentors from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Andreessen Horowitz, GSR Venture, Google, Facebook, ByteDance and startups in Silicon Valley, China, and India.

Your every single effort for this fight against COVID-19 wherein all of us could keep the humanitarian spirits and open source values, can compose stories worth telling and precious memories to remember.  

Hack for Wuhan Overview

In this online Hackathon, you will team up with other participants to work out creative solutions which can help the fight against the current epidemic of COVID-19.

Purpose
To call on more people to participate and create works including product prototypes, coding, user experience design, and business or social impact models to combat the COVID-19 epidemic.

To encourage social innovation so that we can help the fight against the epidemic with open source collaboration and hence create shared value among volunteers, institutions, businesses enterprises, and platforms.

Method:
Online & remote working, distributed collaboration is recommended 

Content:
Design and development competitions based on data provided by "Wuhan 2020"; submit works and pitch videos (idea, introduction, and meaning)

Award:
Participants and projects will be evaluated by the judges and the community, and the winners will be awarded.

Scopes
Related to the emerging global public health crisis, the COVID-19 outbreak, the topics may include:

1. Annotated data for the epidemic
2. Innovative applications of related technologies
3. Social welfare promotion and science popularization
4. Solutions to various social challenges arising from this public crisis

Forms
Works are presented in a free manner, including but not limited to:

• Artworks, such as video and animation
• Dynamic Webpages
• Open Source Data
• Data Analytics and Prediction Models
• Visualization, such as platform and website
• Product applications for the epidemic
• Analysis or survey report and plan

Requirements
Participants include, but are not limited to:

• Developers from open source communities (such as Wuhan2020 and other communities on GitHub) who have ideas and prototypes that can solve current challenges and create shared value;
• Volunteers who want to increase social impact through open source;
• Entrepreneurs who actively tackle the challenges of COVID-19 and social crises.

Targeted Audiences:

• Individual and team participants
• By invitation - Judges, mentors, and professionals (entrepreneurs, social innovators, venture capitalists, etc.).
• Anyone who are interested in and wanted to learn from this event.

Judges and Mentors：

• Leader from Stanford PACS
• Professors in Computer Science at Stanford University, Berkeley, and MIT
• Product managers from Google, Facebook, ByteDance, etc.
• Guests from venture capital institutions (GSR Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz)
• Entrepreneurs from the US, India, China, etc.