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Run Your Business for the Present

Entrepreneurs' Organization

How Entrepreneurs Can Create Meaningful Impact through Philanthropy, Part II A three-part series showing alternative paths to the traditional model of making a boatload of money at all costs and then giving it away. Read Part I: Run Your Non-Profit Like A Start-Up. Contributed to EO by Brandon Hatton , an EO member in Miami and the founder and CEO of Conscious Wealth , which helps its clients live abundant, intentional lives.

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Sarah Says: How To Leverage School Breaks To Advance Your Innovation

Venture Well

Welcome to Sarah Says, a series by VentureWell Program Officer Sarah Wharmby. Sarah will address commonly asked questions raised in our E-Team Program workshops, Pioneer. The post Sarah Says: How To Leverage School Breaks To Advance Your Innovation appeared first on VentureWell.

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Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

TechCrunch

Wonder Brands , an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5 million in Series A funding. This enables the Mexico City–based company to expand into South America. Nazca and IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, co-led the round and were joined by existing and new investors CoVenture, SilverCircle, Korify Capital, Infinitas Capital and GBM Mexico.

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Sarah Says: How To Leverage School Breaks To Advance Your Innovation

Venture Well

Welcome to Sarah Says, a series by VentureWell Program Officer Sarah Wharmby. Sarah will address commonly asked questions raised in our E-Team Program workshops, Pioneer. The post Sarah Says: How To Leverage School Breaks To Advance Your Innovation 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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Park Jaebum, CEO of Sam Corporation: Pioneering ‘Korean Education Technology’ from Finland to Indonesia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Korean education technology , known as ‘K-Edu Tech,’ is gaining attention on the global stage. Incorporating coding training, book reading, and AR education technology, this innovative content is making a mark among learners in Asia, the Middle East, and beyond.

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Need investment capital?

Berkonomics

Preparing for the game… If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more. And yet, in an earlier post, we spoke of the problems that come when taking unstructured investments from friends and family.

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HealthXCapital Merges with Jungle Ventures to Drive Healthcare Expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. The partnership is set to infuse Jungle Ventures with the expertise of the HealthXCapital team, enabling the firm to diversify its investment portfolio and expand its existing healthcare-related investments.

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@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs

TechCrunch

The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the one with the coveted first-name handle. Typically, handles like these sell for thousands of dollars on the secondary market, so if the handle becomes available again, someone might make a killing by snagging it.

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Seongnam City Boosts Global Market Access for Pangyo Techno Valley Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register As social distancing measures ease, businesses find the global market more accessible. Unlike before, when communication was mainly done through video conferences, this year, there are more opportunities to directly showcase new services and products to the local markets of different countries.

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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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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. In the intervening time, the paper’s authors have presented the work to a wider audience through a series of lectures.

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Should You Use A.I. In Your Business?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Let’s cut to the chase and answer the question everyone is asking Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility

TechCrunch

Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The onshoring of battery factories in the U.S. has boomed since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, which offers a range of tax credits for the production of clean energy.

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GCUC Podcast Recap: Ben Hamer

GCUC

GCUC Podcast Recap: Ben Hamer On the latest episode of the GCUC Podcast Dr. Ben Hamer, Chief Futurist at Creative Cubes in Australia, discusses various aspects of the coworking.

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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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4 steps founders can take today to improve team recognition tomorrow

TechCrunch

Conrad Egusa Contributor Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. More posts by this contributor Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem Fraser Gillies Contributor Fraser Gillies is a principal at Publicize, a PR firm for growth-stage startups and technology firms. A talented team is arguably one of the most valuable assets of any company.

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[Cybersixgill in Accesswire] Cybersixgill named finalist of the coveted top InfoSec Innovator Awards for 2023

OurCrowd

The post [Cybersixgill in Accesswire] Cybersixgill named finalist of the coveted top InfoSec Innovator Awards for 2023 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Intel’s modernization strategy could face setback with end of $5.4B Tower deal

TechCrunch

In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment to build two new Fabs (chip manufacturing facilities) in Arizona along with plans to increase capacity in other parts of the U.S. and Europe. In a 2022 article, we described Intel’s new approach this way: IDM 2.0 involves a three-pronged approach to semiconductor manufacturing: Intel’s n

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YC’s Group Partners share their worst investor meetings

Y Combinator

Mind games. Awkward power moves. Investors showing up hours late, only to make no effort to seem interested. Before any of us were Group Partners at YC, we were founders. We know how it feels to be in the hot seat when you’re raising money, and we’ve seen just how many ways an investor meeting can go wrong. For this latest episode of Office Hours , the Group Partners are sharing stories from their worst investor meetings.

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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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Fifteen years in and still early to the industry with Marco Zappacosta from Thumbtack

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Marco Zappacosta , the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack , a startup that runs a marketplace for home services and beyond. Zappacosta talked about his unusual path to entrepreneurship which included almost getting a degree in neuroscience before deciding to start a company without having an existing idea.

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How Tiago Forte made $478,800 with his book

OkDork

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to best-selling author and YouTuber, Tiago Forte. After years of struggling with a chronic illness that no specialists could find a cure for, Tiago created his own process to research, collect, and organize information so he could figure out how to live a healthier and pain-free life. That experience led him to write his first best-selling book Building a Second Brain , which helped Silicon Valley businesses, NASA scientists, and every

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HealthXCapital’s team joins Jungle Ventures

TechCrunch

The team behind HealthXCapital , which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years ago, is now a partner at Jungle, where he will invest in healthcare startups in Southeast Asia and India. HealthXCapital’s portfolio includes RED.Health, Homage , Medfin and THB.

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How Tiago Forte made $478,800 with his book

OkDork

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to best-selling author and YouTuber, Tiago Forte. After years of struggling with a chronic illness that no specialists could find a cure for, Tiago created his own process to research, collect, and organize information so he could figure out how to live a healthier and pain-free life. That experience led him to write his first best-selling book Building a Second Brain , which helped Silicon Valley businesses, NASA scientists, and every

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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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Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams

TechCrunch

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes , its monthly product update show, the company announced that it would soon let streamers block banned users from watching streams. If moderators or streamers enable the feature, banned users will be booted not only out of chat but out of a livestream itself in real-time.

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[Alpha Tau in GlobeNewswire] Alpha Tau announces robust long-term safety and efficacy data from multiple clinical trials of Alpha DaRT

OurCrowd

The post [Alpha Tau in GlobeNewswire] Alpha Tau announces robust long-term safety and efficacy data from multiple clinical trials of Alpha DaRT appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Cruise and Waymo see a surge in robotaxi app downloads

TechCrunch

Consumer interest in Cruise and Waymo’s competing robotaxi services surged following a vote last week by the California Public Utilities Commission that allowed the two companies to expand and charge for their driverless car operations in San Francisco. Estimates from app intelligence provider data.ai showed 15,400 downloads of the Waymo One app in the five days following the August 10 vote — up 67% from the 9,200 downloads in the week prior.

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[DarioHealth in Vents Magazine] Dario blood glucose meter available at Canada’s trusted online pharmacy

OurCrowd

Living with diabetes requires consistent monitoring of blood glucose levels to ensure proper management and overall health. In Canada, the Dario Blood Glucose Meter has emerged as a reliable and convenient tool for individuals with diabetes.

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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.