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11 Business Buzzwords We Used in 2015

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This is another way of describing a CEO or business founder who is caught-up in the daily operations of their organization. Participants in the EO GSEA program know the value of incubator companies, taking start-up companies and helping them grow through training, mentorship and even perks like shared office space! In the weeds.

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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

In short, Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more startups, that they’d be cheaper to start, that new kinds of investors would fund them, that founders would be more technical, and that founders would keep control of their companies. Founders increasingly retained control of their company.

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Melanie (Mel) Langlotz is the founder and CEO of Geo AR Games , a game design studio that utilises augmented reality for “creating digital experiences that positively impact the world, fostering education and empowerment with simulations and serious games.” .” Geo AR Games founder and CEO, Melanie (Mel) Langlotz. I love AR.

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Arrikto raises $10M for its MLOps platform

TechCrunch

“Our technology at Arrikto helps companies overcome the complexities of implementing and managing machine learning applications,” Arrikto CEO and co-founder Constantinos Venetsanopoulos explained. The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. Arrikto CEO Constantinos Venetsanopoulos.

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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

TechCrunch

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

TechCrunch

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay).

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

TechCrunch

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn estimates that Duolingo’s upcoming product developments will get users from zero to a knowledge job in a different language within the next two to three years. Luis von Ahn, the co-founder of Duolingo, visiting President Obama in 2015. Image Credits: Duolingo.