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How to Make Your Corporate Wellness Program Truly Effective

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Corporate wellness programs have become commonplace, with companies offering everything from gym memberships to meditation apps. Yet according to my interview with Tawn Williams , founder of corporate wellness firm House of Anaya , research shows that most such programs fail to get significant engagement and participation from employees. Surveys indicate that around 80% of employees typically do not take advantage of the wellness offerings provided by their company.

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Dispatches from the Road: Q3 2023

Revolution

We spent the good part of the past three months doing our favorite part of the job: meeting the startups we seed (and the communities that rally around them) on their home turf. We’ve read plenty of articles on the movement of tech talent and the surge of American entrepreneurship , but seeing that momentum in person is a different kind of invigorating.

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Strong Foundations: Venture Capital Legal and Accounting - Approaches, Tools and Software [Part I]

The Seraf Compass

If you make a simple mistake while driving, like hitting some black ice you didn’t see, and you skid off the road into a ravine and total your car, assuming no injuries, that’s a bummer and a major inconvenience for you. But if you borrow your friend’s car and do the same thing, sorting out the legalities can be significantly more complicated. Those same dynamics apply to fund investing.

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Startup Horror Stories: Scary Situations Entrepreneurs Can Avoid with Stress Tests

Venture Well

Frightened to fail? Face your fears! Use our free stress test to identify your startup's vulnerabilities and brainstorm contingency plans. The post Startup Horror Stories: Scary Situations Entrepreneurs Can Avoid with Stress Tests appeared first on VentureWell.

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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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The Science of Success: Creative Venture’s Alex Luce’s Unconventional Path of Impact

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The intersection of science and venture capital can do wonders and uncover a champion in a city like Silicon Valley. In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures.

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Singapore’s Triple-A Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding for Crypto Payment Gateway Expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore’s Triple-A , a crypto payment gateway, has successfully concluded a Series A funding round of $10 million. Leading this funding round were Peak XV Partners and Shorooq Partners , both of whom had previously invested in Triple-A.

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31 Tech Hubs designated by EDA in Biden-Harris Administration

American Entrepreneurship

Each identified regional centers are primed for technological innovation and job creation The Biden-Harris administration has put great focus on U.S. competitiveness as seen through the bipartisan passed CHIPS and Science Act. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a major implementation of that legislation with the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country—that will receive direct investments to make them into globally competi

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A Delegation from Uruguay Visits Pangyo Techno Valley to Benchmark Its Best Practices in Smart Cities

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register A delegation consisting of officials from the Inter-American Development Bank of Uruguay and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance visited the startup campus operated by Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator (President Kang Sung-cheon, hereinafter referred to as GBSA) on October 20.

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Debunking the Worst Startup Advice Founders Should Ditch Right Now

Entrepreneur's Handbook

These 4 misguided tactics are secretly killing your business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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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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Humans + Tech: Operations

GCUC

Humans + Tech: Operations Photo Credit – Patch While it doesn’t seem to be completely game-changing, there’s no doubt tech has changed the coworking industry for good. We.

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Secondary Assets: a Two-Article Series

Angel Capital Association

by Ali Moiz , Founder & CEO at SandHill Markets Throughout the years, trends in markets have come and gone. But one prevailing trend is withstanding the test of time: the more players in the game, the more potential liquidity with which to play. So, where are all of the players, well, playing? How is it possible that with Q2 of 2023 being the slowest quarter for funding in AngelLists history since they started recordkeeping in 2013, are people still interested in even playing the game?

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Why 42 states came together to sue Meta over kids’ mental health

TechCrunch

Attorneys general from dozens of states sued Meta this week, accusing the company of deliberately designing its products to appeal to kids to the detriment of their mental health. In the lawsuit, filed in California federal court Tuesday, 33 states including California, Colorado, New York, Arizona and Illinois argue that Meta violated state and federal […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Seven business management skills startups value in graduate students

Common Reasons Why Startups Fail

Startups are constantly changing and adapting to their environment, and having the right skills to manage these changes can be the difference between success and… The post Seven business management skills startups value in graduate students appeared first on.

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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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AMD and Korean telco KT back AI software developer Moreh in $22M Series B 

TechCrunch

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Korean telco KT are among the investors of Moreh, which builds an AI software tool that optimizes and creates AI models. The Santa Clara- and Seoul-based startup said it has raised a $22 million Series B round, bringing its total raised to $30 million. Moreh says its flagship AI software, called […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[DailyPay in Healthcare Dive] Omnia Healthcare Group partners with DailyPay in continued effort to provide meaningful benefits to team members

OurCrowd

The post [DailyPay in Healthcare Dive] Omnia Healthcare Group partners with DailyPay in continued effort to provide meaningful benefits to team members appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Carta’s CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press

TechCrunch

In an attempt at damage control, the CEO of the equity management startup Carta, Henry Ward, today emailed customers, telling them that if they are concerned about “negative press” tied to the outfit, they should read a Medium post of his. The move appeared only to call more attention to the many reported problems plaguing […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[DailyPay in TechBullion] An interview with DailyPay’s Chief Customer Officer, Edward Zaval

OurCrowd

Tell me about your career journey in Customer Success. How did you get to where you are today? I’m really proud of being a career-long services professional and customer advocate. As I like to remind my team, I began my career as a technical support engineer providing phone support to IT enterprise customers. Read more here.

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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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TwitchCon 2023 was better than last year, but everyone hated Las Vegas

TechCrunch

Compared to the shitshow that went down last year, TwitchCon Las Vegas was largely a success. The problem? Nobody liked Las Vegas. This year’s TwitchCon appeared to mitigate last year’s crowding issues and concluded without any foam pit tragedies. The fraught relationship between Twitch and its streamers is on the mend after the company opened […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[Intuition Robotics in WebMD] AI ‘Companion’ Robots: The Next Must-Have Health Tech?

OurCrowd

If you ask about her summer, Susan Glosser will tell you she traveled to India with her friend Elli. She’ll describe sipping chai tea and coffee together. She might show you a snapshot of herself in front of the Taj Mahal. Susan never actually left her apartment in Ohio. And Elli isn’t a person.

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Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images

TechCrunch

Amazon is rolling out a new AI image generation tool for advertisers to generate backgrounds based on product descriptions and themes. Amazon is currently beta testing the tool with select advertisers and will expand availability “over time,” the company says. To use the tool, advertisers upload a photo, type an image description describing a background […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[NeuReality in Design & Reuse] NeuReality and Veriest achieve great engineering feat to advance AI chips for world’s largest data centers

OurCrowd

The post [NeuReality in Design & Reuse] NeuReality and Veriest achieve great engineering feat to advance AI chips for world’s largest data centers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Will X’s addition of audio and video calling create stickiness in the app?

TechCrunch

Elon Musk announced Wednesday that an early version of video and audio calling is now available on X, formerly known as Twitter. The move is another step towards Musk’s goal of turning X into an “everything app” that can handle everything from online payments to news to food delivery. Not all users can access it […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[NeuReality in electronicsforu.com] Revolutionising AI with first-of-its-kind server-on-chip

OurCrowd

NeuReality’s AI-focused NR1 chip, developed with a 7nm design, has transitioned its finalised design to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) manufacturing, marking the inception of the globe’s premier Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused server-on-a-chip (SOC).

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ULA aims to launch Astrobotic lunar lander on Christmas Eve

TechCrunch

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s first lunar lander is set to take off on United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Christmas Eve, ULA CEO Tory Bruno said. Bruno told the audience at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit that the rocket company is targeting between December 24 and December 26 for the first-ever Vulcan launch. “The […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[Appdome in eChannelNews] Exploitation of Mobile Bots with AppDome

OurCrowd

For this podcast, we interviewed Chris Roeckl, Chief Product Officer at Appdome to discuss mobile app security, anti-fraud, anti-malware, anti-cheat, anti-bot and other defenses in Android & iOS apps. Watch here.

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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.