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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Every day, we meet on Zoom not only to discuss pressing issues impacting our business, but also to bond over books we’re reading and television shows we’re watching. Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Collaborative. Communicative.

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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. More posts by this contributor. Derek Xiao. Contributor.

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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Siegel’s recent book, THE BRAINS AND BRAWN COMPANY: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical , explores how (and why) many business owners in digitized industries overlook and underappreciate traditional competencies like logistics, manufacturing, customer service, and quality control. Can you tell us more?

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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PostEx acquires Call Courier to become Pakistan’s largest e-commerce service provider

TechCrunch

million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. This acquisition makes PostEx the largest e-commerce service provider in the market, showing the potential of startups for challenging incumbents. PostEx will now serve 1.3

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Ivella is the latest fintech focused on couples banking, with a twist

TechCrunch

” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. million seed round last year , wants to make joint accounts more collaborative and transparent. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

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Logistics and procurement on autopilot is the future Cofactr wants to live in

TechCrunch

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. You’ll be seeing more collaboration between Cofactr, other startups and well-established organizations that serve hardware,” says Gulley. In addition, it made an investment in Flux, which operates in a similar space, last year.