TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aldagram , a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it build out its footprint across Asia and the Middle East. On top of that, KANNA helps construction project managers keep connected with what’s happening on-site.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

AI CAD, construction, permitting Accountants & Auditors 1.38 Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Medical & Health Services Managers 0.49

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Create psychological safety : Encourage calculated risks and constructive dissent. Great leaders balance execution (laying bricks), tactics (building walls), and vision (creating cathedrals) 6. Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. million NASA contract for lunar construction tech by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

PR isn''t a one shot deal--it''s about constructing a story that will evolve over time. You launch to the public, announce a funding, and then what? What''s the PR going to say two weeks after that, and two weeks after that, and two weeks after that?

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Industries such as construction, property management, retail, healthcare, technical trades, and others have incurred higher expenses due to their piecing together multiple software products. Fingercheck is pursuing a $5.1 billion total addressable market estimated for “deskless” workforce management which is forecasted to grow at a 7.6%

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

At Parafin, weve worked tirelessly to construct our entire company from our products and teams to our processes to solve this problem, Poddar said. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. This has historically hindered small business growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There is a common saying in construction that for every project, you can pick two of three attributes: speed, quality or price. . This Pick Two Rule of the construction world underscores a basic truth: While we can have everything we may want, we typically can’t have it all at once. He is also the host of The Elevate Podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Be careful about board construction. It will pay huge dividends in avoiding the CEO tied up in admin and allow him / her to focus on bigger picture items. Equally – a great VP Finance can be leveraged well to take on finance, legal, HR and much of the operational tasks. Limit the number of VCs. Equally limit the number of management.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This is just a few miles from LOreal Groupes recently announced construction of a research and innovation center. The company recently announced a $1.2 CoreWeave: A Cornerstone of the East Coast AI Economy Governor Phil Murphy has lauded CoreWeave as a model for the states AI ambitions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

While doing so, we had researched the residential construction industry because home automation was gaining momentum and represented a much greater market. Not only that it would save 30% of the labour to wire a home, but also significant downstream savings for all the trades that must work around the switch box in new home construction.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

but instead Airbnb was seen as an active proponent of expanded affordable housing construction. It should be “How can everyone get faster internet?” Imagine if it wasn’t “Should we have Airbnb or not?” Imagine if WeWork refused to take more space with a commercial landlord unless that landlord was seen as friendly to small retail businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Register Singapore -based construction planning startup Frontline Industrial Software has raised $700,000 in seed funding. With the newly secured seed funding, the company aims to change the field of construction planning by leveraging its unique software. Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

By Charles LaCalle , Director of Sourcing at Dreamit Ventures Subscribe to Dreamit’s Podcast on Apple , Google Podcasts , or Spotify Learn more about Dreamit Urbantech, a growth-focused program for real estate and construction tech startups with revenue, pilots, or early product-market fit.

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APRIL 23, 2012

VCs construct stories in their head as to why they invested in this or that, and much of it is based on prior experience, but they're often awful at articulating the real reasons. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. Even the guy tossing it around has no clue why it winds up where it does.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We already know how to build plants and safely operate reactors; we just need to get better at reducing construction hurdles and executing on new reactor deployment. Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) began construction on five nuclear reactors in 1973. Though these reactors were similar designs, they were not standardized.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2020

Assertive communication and constructive criticism will show your employees that you appreciate all the effort they put in, and have an understanding of their potential mishaps. Offer healthy perks. Activities such as lunchtime yoga or gym memberships are well worth the investment.

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Revolution

MAY 2, 2022

There are constructive policy ideas now being considered, and a range of exciting new businesses waiting to be born. American entrepreneurialism is in a much better place today than it was a decade ago, in large part because Republicans and Democrats worked together in 2012. But there’s much more our elected leaders could do.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This will allow you to construct your core value proposition — the overall value or essence of your brand that a customer gets from doing business with you, compared to competitors. Katherine emphasizes, “You are the personality of your brand.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2015

I was really impressed with his ability to distill things down to what was really important--and his constructively critical eye when it came to the buzz around products that most people just didn't need. We stayed in touch, doing a couple of tris together, chatting about startups, and venture, life, etc.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Their products are constructed on a modular platform that affords diverse design and customization possibilities. The system drastically reduces installation times, taking merely one to two months per house, starkly contrasting the year or more often required for traditional construction.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2023

She has more than 15 years of marketing, events management and administrative experience spanning the hospitality, legal, professional services and construction sectors. Ashley Luck is an EO SLP member of the Edmonton chapter, One Canada Committee member, and the founder and principal of AMP Business Solutions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some recent research that my company, Innovation Leader , conducted in collaboration with KPMG LLP , suggests a constructive approach. It can be constructive to begin building relationships when a company is at this stage, but your sales staff shouldn’t start calculating their commissions just yet.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

Completing your team as much as your resources allow you to is a critical strategy--and it should be carefully considered, planned ahead and constructed to scale Jumping into a co-founder relationship is like jumping into a marriage where the plan is to have as many kids as possible ASAP.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2020

Then provide constructive criticism. If done regularly, then everyone will understand what winning will look like in six months, 12 months, and even three years from now. Follow these steps to improve culture: Encourage feedback. Schedule regular one-on-ones. Start by praising what the employee is doing well. Assign culture ambassadors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 7, 2020

I like to provide a leader with deer in the headlights syndrome a lot of support, advice, and constructive feedback. The leader just doesn’t seem steady and solid. You can see it in their eyes. I have seen people go from deers in a headlight to strong decisive leaders in less than a year.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2022

You’ll need someone who can call you out on your b t—constructively, of course. You’ll need someone who can help you keep calm and focused when networks are down and prices are crashing.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

It’s important to find people who can challenge each other in constructive ways and offer diverse perspectives. Strong communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills are critical to maintaining a positive working environment. Founders should have complementary skills, not necessarily identical ones.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2021

They had constructed a very specific story about how that company’s features would win out over and above the deal that they missed. It was a clearly hot space and they felt like they had missed out on an opportunity to place their bet in it—and worst of all, they lost the deal to what they considered a rival firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

She has put in 100x the hours, has owned all of the details on construction problems, city planning, building owner negotiations, regulations, ADA compliance and has even had to endure more discussions about men’s urinals than I’m sure anybody would ever care to do. years of her life on this office project journey with me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Imagine how constructive it would be if we all practiced this not just in our businesses, but in our countries, communities and families! You start the day with your preferred solutions and approaches, and by the end of the day, the group’s accomplishments far surpass anything you might have imagined on your own.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There were few mentors assigned to me and guided me prior to the finals in Germany, they were radically open-minded to the idea and gave very constructive feedback that helped a lot in developing my self-awareness. It was a very humbling journey.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a fun fact: For a time, Dave recorded the EO 360° podcast in his car when construction forced him out of his home office! On the other end of the spectrum, you can create your own studio in a small space and invest in a good microphone and headset. Double down on video.

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OurCrowd

MAY 19, 2025

NASAandICONare pushing 3D printing closer to space missions by testing how Moon soil behaves in lunar gravity and advancing a laser-based system to turn that soil into building material for habitats, landing pads, and roads on the Moon and Mars. Read more here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 4, 2019

Strong willed successful CEOs can often construct rubber stamp boards because that is what they want. It is the essence of good parenting. It is the essence of good management. To a large extent boards reflect the CEOs that report to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” You’re thinking about one bullet at a time. At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Akinin launched a startup to offer digital mortgages but pivoted to a construction company with a presence in Namibia, Zambia and Cameroon. Due to the pandemic, Akinin’s construction company embarked on a COVID relief program to donate food supplies in Namibia. Namibia had huge housing demand at the time.

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