A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 4, 2023
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me explain. I am totally fine with anyone using all of the content I have produced here at AVC to train their AI models.
Berkonomics
MAY 4, 2023
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) writer, poet, commercial artist – is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Yup. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before.
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American Entrepreneurship
MAY 4, 2023
Deadline approaching for Grant Applications; Survey Results Share Insight about Small Business Secto Amazon continues its support for small businesses that make up a significant portion of its online vendor base. As part of Small Business Month, Amazon Business, the Amazon business procurement storefront, announced its 2023 Small Business Grants and the results its poll of small business decisionmakers.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Dozens of established players and newer entrants are competing to bring the most cutting-edge remote sensing data to customers. These companies may use hyperspectral, thermal, radar or optical instruments — but none, as of yet, use light detection and ranging (lidar), a technology that’s best-known for its use in self-driving cars. Nuview , a geospatial technology company that emerged from stealth today, wants to change that.
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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?
AsiaTechDaily
MAY 4, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian startup Mimin has secured seed funding from Otto Digital , a subsidiary of conglomerate Salim Group, to expand its chat commerce solutions and virtual assistant services for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.
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Deskmag
MAY 4, 2023
How are coworking spaces doing after the end of the pandemic? What problems are they facing today? We adress these questions in the first article of the 2023 Global Coworking Survey.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Small to medium-sized enterprises contribute 60% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product. But companies in the D2C space still struggle to compete against bigger brands. Praktis wants to put them on a more level playing field. The startup, which handles everything from raw material purchases to order fulfillment for D2C brands and suppliers, announced today it has raised $20 million in Series A funding.
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 4, 2023
A team of Rider University undergraduate students placed first in this year’s national Small Business Institute (SBI) Project of the Year Competition. The win gives the undergraduate team its sixth national title since it began participating in the competition in 1998. Over that time, the University has tallied a total of 39 top 10 finishes between the undergraduate and graduate divisions of the competition, which recognizes the best student consulting projects throughout the United States. R
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Investing in crypto is not for the faint of heart. The volatile crypto landscape is littered with the remains of high-profile collapses, like Terraform Labs , Three Arrows Capital and FTX. Still, some VC firms — especially investment powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (commonly known as a16z) — remain bullish on crypto. In May 2022, a16z announced a fourth crypto fund to the tune of $4.5 billion, which brings the total amount of funding it has raised for crypto and web3 alone to more than $7.6 billi
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American Entrepreneurship
MAY 4, 2023
Hassle-free initial trial, harnesses digital body language and source data for enhanced fraud detection MENLO PARK, CA – MAY 3, 2023 – Fraud prevention innovator Moonsense today announced they have raised $4.2 Million in seed funding and the general availability of its user behavioral and network intelligence solution to help organizations future-proof their fraud detection and prevention.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Paris Heymann Contributor Share on Twitter Paris Heymann is a partner at Index Ventures , where he invests primarily in B2B SaaS and data. More posts by this contributor Metrics that matter: 3 KPIs to track on the path to profitability Whether it’s the coffee shop down the street, a mobile app on your phone, or software used at work, any long-term minded and customer-centric company is typically focused on: Acquisition: Attracting new customers Retention: Maintaining existing customer relationsh
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 4, 2023
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. But being understood by someone is everything.” – Lao Tzu Psychologist Abraham Maslow famously posited that human behavior can be classified into a hierarchy of … The post Embracing the Future: How Chatbots Can Become Great Companions appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Essentially, Green-Got guarantees that your savings and the money that is sitting in your bank account aren’t going to finance fossil fuel projects and other polluting industries. The startup recently raised a $5.5 million (€5 million) funding round led by Pale Blue Dot.
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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.
OkDork
MAY 4, 2023
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to Kevin Kelly , co-founder of Wired magazine. Kevin is a writer, photographer, and philanthropist best known for his role as the executive editor of Wired , one of the top technology magazines in the world! He travels all over the world giving talks on things like the clock he built that will tick for 10,000 years, and why he’s cataloging every living species on earth.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Businesses pay a lot of money to have the latest and greatest artificial intelligence tools, but when the purpose of your business isn’t tech-related, it isn’t often getting the full AI effect. Senzai wants to change that for companies in Latin America. Julian Lopez-Portillo and Darren Timmins co-founded the Mexico City-based company about a year ago after leaving their respective jobs: Lopez-Portillo was at software company Afiniti, where he was head of product, building out performance measure
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 4, 2023
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TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
It’s been over a year since macroeconomic headwinds started wreaking havoc on venture capital. Late-stage startups were the first to feel the blow, but the impacts continued to creep lower as 2022 went on. Now in 2023, it seems the uncertainty has made its way down to the seed stage — for some companies, at least. Several seed investors have told TechCrunch+ they’ve seen a drop in outreach for seed deals and have seen valuations soften.
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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.
Terkel Small Business
MAY 4, 2023
9 Effective Tips to Boost Local Rankings To help you boost your local search rankings, we’ve gathered nine expert tips from founders, CEOs, and marketing professionals. From increasing reviews and ratings to gaining local inbound links, discover the top strategies these industry leaders recommend for improving your local rankings. Increase Reviews and Ratings Engage With […] The post 9 Effective Tips to Boost Local Rankings appeared first on Terkel.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
The ability to offer businesses more ways to accept digital payments is crucial globally, but merchants’ specific needs typically differ based on geography. In recognition of those nuances, Liquido has for two years been working on building payments infrastructure aimed at modernizing payments access for businesses in Latin America. And today, the company is emerging from stealth to offer what it describes as core payment services that “serve a wide range of needs and customer preferences….throu
Terkel Small Business
MAY 4, 2023
9 Effective Tips to Boost Local Rankings To help you boost your local search rankings, we’ve gathered nine expert tips from founders, CEOs, and marketing professionals. From increasing reviews and ratings to gaining local inbound links, discover the top strategies these industry leaders recommend for improving your local rankings. Increase Reviews and Ratings Engage With […] The post 9 Effective Tips to Boost Local Rankings appeared first on Featured.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
Identity management used to mean making sure you had your driver’s license when you left the house, but these days it’s not so easy: Identity fundamentally underpins how we engage with the digital world, and identity services can take on many forms (and, unfortunately, abuses). I’m excited to host a TechCrunch Live event with Persona co-founder and CEO Rick Song, one of the early movers in the space, about how his company identified ID management as an opportunity.
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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.
OurCrowd
MAY 4, 2023
NEW YORK , May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Apploi , healthcare’s leading workforce management software, has been honored as a Gold Partner by Indeed, the most popular job site in the world. As an Indeed Gold Partner, Apploi offers its customers key features including Indeed Apply, Disposition Sync, and the Sponsored Jobs Integration directly from within the Apploi platform.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series , and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequently is that it’s easy to be a critic: What would we have done? Well, we’re not ones to turn away from a challenge here at TechCrunch+. So for this week’s pitch deck teardown, we’re going to try something different.
OurCrowd
MAY 4, 2023
Global autonomous last-mile delivery is on its way to becoming a nearly $85 billion industry by 2030, an almost eight-fold increase from 2021. And retailers and delivery services alike are gearing up for the demand. Listen here here. The post [Flytrex on SupplyChainBrain] Autonomous delivery solutions aren’t one-size-fits-all appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Why, hello, Crunchers! We’re excited to tell you that today is Thursday! How fabulously exciting. Over on TC+, Haje has been hard at work trying to create the Perfect Pitch Deck. Oh, and Euro startups: Here’s your chance to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 !
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