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How Founders Can Master Mental Resilience to Stay in the Game Long Enough to Win

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We asked Aaron Houghton of EO Colorado to share how he overcame burnout and developed a unique solution, Dory, to help him master mental resilience, which grew into the world’s largest community dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs. Connection practices bring us closer to the people, communities, and identities we hold dear.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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Candy Crush: Leadership Lessons from a Downloadable App

Entrepreneurs' Organization

And sure, it’s a simple game on a phone, but the truth is that leaders can actually learn a few lessons from playing: View the full article on Inc.com , a partner of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization , the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. EOBeyondBorders celebrates our rich, global community.

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Serena Ventures backs SoLo Funds as finance platform tops 1M registered users

TechCrunch

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based It’s challenging across the board.”

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Fini: Empowering Wellness Creators and Transforming Lives

Jason Malki

With a mission to empower creators and foster a vibrant community, Ashley brings a wealth of expertise in human-centric design, mobile-development and advocacy for mental and physical health to Fini. Fini is more than a platform; it’s a community fostering well-being. What motivated you to launch your startup? This was very insightful.

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Dremio - A Foundational Component of the Modern Data Stack

Tomasz Tunguz

About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Dremio enables Amazon, FactSet, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, NCR, and Nutanix, amongst others to query oceanic volumes of data at comparable speed to data warehouses.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

In practical terms, this takes the form of an open source API that enables users to convert the data (video, audio, etc) into a mathematical representation that machines can understand. He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Activeloop image database.