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8 Steps to Making Better Business Decisions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Fortunately, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has identified strategies help you know when you’re falling into cognitive biases , as well as ways to defeat these dangerous judgment errors in your professional life. It’s a learnable strategy based on a distinct sequence of eight simple steps. It’s not mythical.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. still perform the repetitive functions of data collection and investor reporting manually.”.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. still perform the repetitive functions of data collection and investor reporting manually.”.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Few AEC firms are actually re-thinking their innovation strategies to gain competitive edge, or even simply survive. Robotics that have the ability to automate and bring productivity to this vertical are attractive for the following reasons: 1.