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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. How did you break into your tech career? I’m not a product inventor.

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A look at the budding market for the text that prompts AI systems

TechCrunch

However, I quickly realized that creating coherent images using just words was a challenge.” For his part, Shahir Salehi, the founder of ChatX and a front-end designer with computer science and art degrees, felt the “timing was right” to launch a competing marketplace for prompt exchanging. Consider moderation.

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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. His co-founder, John Hering, was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Lookout.

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Deep Agency shows the perils of applying AI to the fashion industry

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Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Enshrined in U.S.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.