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3 Stakeholders Critical to Success

Paul G. Silva

User Payer Channel There are 3 stakeholders critical to a product’s success: User: the primary end-user of the product. Payer: pay for the product. Channel: responsible for getting Users to adopt the product. You must solve each stakeholder’s distinct pains or else your product will fail. Fail to solve the Channel’s problems and no one will hear about your product.

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Ford slashes production target for all-electric F-150 Lightning to match demand

TechCrunch

Ford will cut production of its all-electric pickup truck in 2024 in an effort to match consumer demand. Ford executives signaled in October during its third-quarter earnings call plans to”adjust” production of its all-electric vehicles and delay about $12 billion in investments due to softening demand for higher priced premium electric vehicles.

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The Philippines Government Collaborates with Marikina City to Foster Innovation and Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in collaboration with key officials from Marikina City’s 2nd District, has introduced the pilot programs and services of the Marikina Creative and Innovation Hub at the Center for Innovation and Technology for Enterprises (CITE) in Marikina City, the Philippines.

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Helicity Space raises $5M to unlock fusion propulsion – and fast travel in deep space

TechCrunch

Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion, which has long been the domain of science fiction. The startup says that they have discovered a way to use plasma jets for fusion reaction. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Indonesia’s Klinik Pintar Secures $5M in Series A1 Funding to Propel Healthtech Expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Healthtech startup Klinik Pintar , headquartered in Jakarta, has raised $5 million in a Series A1 funding round led by Altara Ventures. Participants in the funding included Infocom, Golden Gate Ventures, Skystar Capital, and Venturra. The company plans to utilize the new funds to expand both its network and product offerings.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walk

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. But outside of the history, he’s one of my favorite people to chat about the roller coasters of company building. He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor.

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Food tech roundup: VC funding declines again in Q3 amid fewer deals

TechCrunch

Food tech investors discuss another consecutive quarter of decline in venture capital investments into areas like plant-based meat alternatives and cultivated meat. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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7 Current and Future Breakthrough Space Exploration Technologies for Investors to Monitor

Angel Capital Association

by Ryan Prete , Financial Writer, Linqto 1. Space Tourism Over the next decade, analysts anticipate a dramatic expansion of commercial space tourism ventures. Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and Axiom Space have already taken significant strides, with suborbital flights becoming more accessible to civilians. These space pioneers are likely to refine their technologies, making space tourism more routine and affordable.

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10 Inspirational Sports Quotes That’ll Make You a Better Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Entrepreneurship is a lot like a sport. To be fair, it wouldn’t be an exciting sport to watch.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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ACA Announces the Opening of Governance Nominations for FY25

Angel Capital Association

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing. As angel investors, we play a critical role in leading economic development through our unrelenting support of the entrepreneurial community and ongoing strengthening of angel investing.

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Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open

Andreessen Horowitz

Arthur Mensch is the co-founder of Mistral and the co-author of Deepmind’s pivotal 2022 “Chinchilla” paper. In September 2023, Mistral released Mistral-7B, an advanced open-source language model that has rapidly become the top choice for developers. Just this week, they introduced a new mixture of experts model – Mixtral — that’s already generating significant buzz among AI developers.

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[Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber Adds Generative AI to its Open XDR Platform

OurCrowd

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR, has become one of the first cybersecurity software providers to incorporate Generative AI (GenAI) into its Open XDR Platform.

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Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round

TechCrunch

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today. As a reminder, Mistral AI raised […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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[NeuReality in EE Times] How to Make Generative AI Greener

OurCrowd

Described as ‘a long-awaited cure for the ailments of big CPU-centric data centres’ that suffer from high inefficiency and expense NeuReality will demonstrate the world’s first affordable, ultra scalable AI-centric servers designed purely for inference, meaning, the daily operation of a trained AI model. Read more here.

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US healthcare giant Norton says hackers stole millions of patients’ data during ransomware attack

TechCrunch

Kentucky-based non-profit healthcare system Norton Healthcare has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of millions of patients and employees during an earlier ransomware attack. Norton operates more than 40 clinics and hospitals in and around Louisville, Kentucky, and is the city’s third-largest private employer. The organization has more than 20,000 employees, and more than […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in The Sacramento Bee] Will global leaders at UN Conference finally leverage water power to address climate crisis?

OurCrowd

The post [BlueGreen Water Technologies in The Sacramento Bee] Will global leaders at UN Conference finally leverage water power to address climate crisis? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving

TechCrunch

Hasbro is laying off 1,100 employees, according to an SEC filing. The company behind franchises like Dungeons & Dragons and Transformers, Hasbro already laid off 800 employees in January. While some employees will find out about the fate of their jobs on Tuesday, others will be cut in the coming year. By 2025, Hasbro told […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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[Phantom Auto in Market Scale] Phantom Auto | Remote Operation for Logistics Vehicles, Are We There Yet?

OurCrowd

Remote operation for logistics vehicles sounds like a futuristic dream, but when dreams become reality, the future quickly morphs into the present. Read more here.

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TikTok becomes first non-game app to reach $10B in consumer spending

TechCrunch

TikTok’s short-form video app is hitting a new milestone. The app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending across the Apple App Store and Google Play combined, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. The […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[CropX in Pulse 2.0] CropX Technologies: How This Company Is Transforming The $200 Billion Precision Farming Market

OurCrowd

The post [CropX in Pulse 2.0] CropX Technologies: How This Company Is Transforming The $200 Billion Precision Farming Market appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its antitrust fight against Google

TechCrunch

On Monday, a jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could reshape how app marketplaces like Google Play are allowed to operate. The unanimous verdict wraps up a three-year-long legal battle between the companies. Epic, creator of the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite, first filed its lawsuit against Google in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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[Flytrex in Yahoo News!] Drone deliveries: Florida Tech showcases autonomous aircraft, touts future economic clout

OurCrowd

The post [Flytrex in Yahoo News!] Drone deliveries: Florida Tech showcases autonomous aircraft, touts future economic clout appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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23andMe changes to terms of service are ‘cynical’ and ‘self-serving,’ lawyers say

TechCrunch

Two days before 23andMe disclosed that hackers had accessed the personal and genetic data of almost 7 million customers, the genetic testing giant updated its terms of service. The changes are an effort to make it more difficult for the victims of the breach to band together in filing a legal claim against the company, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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walk and talk

Derek Sivers

One of my favorite authors invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”. One of the walkers lives in Thailand, speaks Thai, and made all the local arrangements, scoping the track in advance.

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Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January

TechCrunch

AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January. It was building a commercial container testing platform, based on a popular open source project, always a nice combination. It would seem it was time to find product-market fit and take off, but instead […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.