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Beyond the Badge: Your Guide to San Antonio for ICBI38

INBIA

In a few days, the InBIA community will convene in San Antonio for ICBI38! This vibrant locale, nicknamed Alamo City, River City, Military City, and even the City of Creativity for Gastronomy, will offer much more than just presentations and networking events.

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How One Entrepreneur Utilizes Visualization To Promote Living Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurs change the world. We provide jobs that help drive the economy, give back to local communities , and create sustainability practices that support climate neutrality to make our world a better place. Entrepreneurs also save lives. And that’s what Dave Galbenski , former EO Global Chair and 24-year member of EO Detroit, is doing. Dave is alive and well today thanks to a living liver donation in 2019.

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Erin Price-Wright

Andreessen Horowitz

Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of technology, from how we code to how we sell to how we build companies. But perhaps more than any other sector, artificial intelligence is transforming the physical world in ways that were recently unimaginable. From supply chains and robotics to advanced factories and industrial autonomy, LLMs and other AI models are powering the next wave of transformation in the physical domain in ways we’re only just beginning to comprehend.

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Founders Factory and Rio Tinto Partner to Boost Mining Tech Startups

AsiaTechDaily

Rio Tinto, a prominent Australian mining company, has partnered strategically with Founders Factory, a renowned global venture studio and startup investor. This collaboration aims to support the development and commercialization of technologies in the mining sector, aligning with Rio Tinto’s mission to innovate and meet the world’s growing demand for essential materials.

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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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Hard Tech Companies, Then and Now

Y Combinator

Last month, Boom became the first independent company to develop a supersonic jet.  Here’s Boom’s XB-1 jet taking its maiden flight: It was a historic moment for humanity.  It was also an emotional moment for us at YC because we’ve been hoping this day would come since Blake was in the W16 batch, walking around with a plastic model of the plane he hoped to build.

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Making the Most of Open Source AI

Andreessen Horowitz

There are few terms in the world of artificial intelligence that invoke more of a reaction than a simple four-letter word: Open. Whether it’s industry debates over business models and the actual definition of open , or governments actively discussing how to regulate models, seemingly everyone has an opinion on what it means for AI models to be open.

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Wavemaker Partners Invests $1 Million in Vietnamese Marketing Solutions Provider CNV

AsiaTechDaily

Vietnamese digital marketing solutions provider CNV has secured $1 million in seed funding from Singapore-based venture capital firm Wavemaker Partners. This investment follows CNV’s strong performance in 2022 and 2023, three years after receiving crucial pre-seed funding from NextPay, a Vietnamese SME payments and services company.

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Fight for balance on your board!

Berkonomics

Picking up where we left off… In my last insight, I described the CEO who stacked the board with two friends, making a majority for control purposes and relegating the investor representatives to insignificance. There were no outside board members with industry experience, no members the CEO trusted with governance backgrounds, no scientists to evaluate the technology that is the core asset of the corporation.

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Building AssetMule: Empowering Product Marketers and Bringing Sales Assets into the 21st Century

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Dorfman, the Co-Founder and CEO of AssetMule , a SaaS product that product marketing and sales teams use to create personalized interactive sales assets. Prior to AssetMule, Justin spent 15 years building sales and product marketing practices at early stage and hypergrowth companies across the Cloud Computing, Influencer Marketing, and Crypto/Blockchain industries.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI with Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo

Andreessen Horowitz

Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to talk through the grand challenges facing healthcare AI today. The discussion covers the implications of AI integration in healthcare workflows, AI as a potential catalyst for value-based care, and the opportunity for innovation in clinical trials.

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A  Rising Player Surfing the GPU Wave: How Inference.ai Plans to Become the “New AWS of the AI Era”

AsiaTechDaily

“The world we live in is built on NVIDIA GPUs,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said in a recent media interview. Indeed, this is no exaggeration, as generative AI is sweeping the globe, led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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Two SDAC Angel Investors weigh in on funding Startups: “Jockey or Horse?”

American Entrepreneurship

First-time entrepreneurs often have great business ideas that provoke their passion to start a business. Our guests, Stacy Pena and Brian Engleman, are Fund Managers for the San Diego Angel Conference and they will share their experience as to how angel investors view founding entrepreneurs and the business ideas they pitch for funding. Don’t miss this chance to gain insight into how to best position your startup to gain the support of investors.

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12 Angel Investor Tips for First-Time Entrepreneurs

The Seraf Compass

I was speaking with Jim Connor of Sand Hill Angels in Silicon Valley and Catherine Mott of BlueTree Allied Angels in Pittsburgh and the subject of fundraising advice for first time entrepreneurs came up. I took the opportunity to jot down answers to twelve questions every fundraising entrepreneur should think through.

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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.

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Leading Diverse Teams

Mark MacLeod

Startups are an inherently creative exercise. We literally create a company out of nothing. From an idea to an initial product to, hopefully, a thriving company. There is no one way to do this. Otherwise, we would all be following […] The post Leading Diverse Teams appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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Japan’s Fintech Sensation: SmartPay Secures $7M From SMBC Venture Capital

AsiaTechDaily

Japanese fintech leader SmartPay has secured $7 million in a pre-Series A funding round, oversubscribed and led by SMBC Venture Capital. Other participants in the round include Japanese venture capital firm Angel Bridge, European venture capital firm Global Founders Capital, and American venture capital firm Matrix Partners.

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Salto Aceleradora: empowering Black women entrepreneurs

Impact Hub

Salto Aceleradora: empowering Black women entrepreneurs The impactful journey of Salto Aceleradora, a programme dedicated to accelerating and supporting small businesses, particularly those led by Black women in Florianópolis and São Paulo. Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Over 6 years ago, Salto Aceleradora emerged in the Florianópolis ecosystem with a mission to accelerate and support small businesses in the region.

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[Arcadia in PR Newswire] Arcadia raises $50M to accelerate product innovation and fuel continued growth

OurCrowd

Arcadia, a global utility data and community solar platform, today announced the close of a growth round. This financing will support the continued growth of the company’s market-leading community solar program, alongside product innovation leveraging AI to unlock new use cases built on the company’s trove of energy data. Read more here.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Financial Modeling – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Gust

Yielding 10x growth or more, known as “hockey-stick growth,” remains the goal for many investors. But only one percent of startups become unicorns; in fact, most VC-backed companies don’t reach their expected rate of return. “That means 95% of founders—or more—are gonna have a bad time,” explains Rand Fishkin, the author of Lost and Founder, and co-founder of Moz and more recently of SparkToro.

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Welcome to the AI + a16z podcast

Andreessen Horowitz

The new AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on AI across a broad swath of areas, from the infrastructure that powers today’s foundation models to how specific tools, like LLMs, are reshaping the hiring process. Looking forward, you can expect to hear about a list of topics that includes models, cybersecurity, and the emerging stack of tools for building and running generative models.

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24 Hours After a Grueling Session of Pickleball, He Invented Something That Makes Most People Better at the Addictive Sport

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

Veloz founder, president and CEO Mitch Junkins discusses the creation process behind his revolutionary paddle and shares his advice for other inventors hoping to make an overhead smash in their industry.

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India’s Swiggy Prepares for IPO: Shifts to Public Limited Company Amidst Expansion Plans

AsiaTechDaily

Indian food delivery platform Swiggy has undergone a corporate transformation, transitioning from a private limited entity to a public limited company, according to reports. The company’s decision to change its status was formalized through filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), indicating a strategy ahead of its anticipated initial public offering (IPO) later this year.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

A Smart Bear: Longform

How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying.

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Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market

Andreessen Horowitz

Naveen Rao has been building artificial intelligence technologies and companies for more than a decade. He founded Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel) and MosaicML (acquired by Databricks), and now serves as vice president of generative AI at Databricks. From chips to models, there are few people with a better pulse on how enterprises are using AI. In this inaugural episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Rao joins a16z partner Matt Bornstein and a16z enterprise editor Derrick Harris to discuss where

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SUI Generis : Office Hours with Evan Cheng of Mysten Labs

Tomasz Tunguz

On April 18th at 9:30am Pacific time, Office Hours will host Evan Cheng, founder & CEO of Mysten Labs, creator of SUI. Evan & the Mysten team were instrumental in the creation of Meta’s high-performance blockchain techology before leaving to start Mysten. There are few key ideas Mysten espouses about blockchains that have led to dramatic improvements in performance & usability.

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Mosti Launches Single Window Initiative to Boost Malaysia’s Startup Scene

AsiaTechDaily

Mosti is set to introduce the Single Window Initiative, a program that helps Malaysia’s startup ecosystem by simplifying procedures and consolidating resources within a unified platform. Minister Chang Lih Kang recently highlighted the initiative’s goal to eliminate bureaucratic obstacles, streamline approval processes, and empower entrepreneurs to navigate the startup landscape more efficiently.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.