Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. They have great internal resources and a large external network to work with. PAD P urpose: Why innovate?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Eventually, she came up with the name Mezclao Studio, which means to “mix.” Mariery uses her unique tropical style of art to transform ideas into products. Now that you understand what a target audience is and why it is necessary, the next step is to use the tools at your disposal to draw customers into your business.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A podcast is a marketing channel – and it can be a key part of a strategic marketing mix. While blogs and posts on social media are used to connect with your audience, podcasting has a unique place in the social media landscape. The podcast was me: my voice, my thoughts, the types of guests I felt excited about speaking to.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Momenta often speaks of how its alliance with car manufacturers differentiates itself from its peers, which have chosen a more cash-intensive route of developing in-house robotaxi fleets. Instead, it counts on gleaning data from a network of mass-produced vehicles powered by its solutions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company has been a longtime leader in the lost item finder space, offering consumers small devices they can attach to items — like handbags, luggage, bikes, wallets, keys, and more — which can then be tracked using the Tile smartphone app for iOS or Android. Image Credits: Tile. Image Credits: Tile internal concept art.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Kandal will focus on unlocking greater synergies across Grab’s superapp ecosystem to create more value for our users and partners, and building a product mix that offers affordable services for those seeking value as well as highly differentiated premium offerings.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The network is one of the most valuable assets an angel investor can develop. Having a great network is good for several reasons: Investors pass deals around. People in my network call on me in the same way. Going it alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Will the public widely accept and use it? And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. .

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transportation mix-use venture capital energy 85

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sounds like a useful feature, no? OpenAI proposes new moderation technique: OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Google is in the author list so you can bet they’re looking at how to use this.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

is a New York-based company that develops innovative color technology products. After four years of arduous research and development, my determination and ingenuity finally led to the creation of a pen that could contain the infinite spectrum of colors! We started the research and development of the project in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. In food you have the amazing food network Tastemade – the Food Network of online video. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 6, 2023

Join us for a virtual event awarding up to $30,000 to a Pennsylvania-based food and beverage startup! Ben Franklin’s Food & Beverage Tech Celerator recently offered a 10-week business startup boot camp for entrepreneurs who are developing scalable, innovative, and technology-focused products/services in the food and beverage industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. I love to watch networks evolve, see how crowds gather and communicate and curate and share. The “half life” was very short.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Detail of the handbag Rafael designed using Lenca patterns. “It We are a mix of Spanish, Indian, black and Mayan culture.”. Rafael López is a 2018 YLAI Network Fellow and the co-founder and CEO of Malengu, a Honduran fashion brand. On one visit to the city of La Esperanza, Rafael recalls stumbling upon a book of Lenca patterns.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Finverse is among a crop of fintechs developing APIs that allow easier sharing of financial data. market because it was reliable and developer-friendly, Lesaffre said. Lesaffre said that Finverse’s early adopters are mostly fintech startups, including a mix of SME lending providers and buy now, pay later services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. Ghost Financial founder John Meyer.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Pre-MVP Stage: This is the stage where you would do the market research and early customer development activities. Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. We have witnessed 3 stages: pre-MVP, MVP and product.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Garrett built Twitter’s communications team and helped the company develop a marketing, public affair and government relations strategy. All background that makes his latest bet all the more interesting: Mixing Board , a startup to bring together communications and marketing leaders in one spot to help clients avoid “the BS PR stuff.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. Odiggo will use part of the funding to continue developing its tech and dashboard software, he said.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Offensive bets typically deliver paybacks as business growth, product features, and developments that unlock new markets or consumer spend.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

The rapid development of technology has changed how the world works. Digital advertising is a branch of digital marketing and deals only with the promotional mix, and not with other Ps of the digital marketing mix. The same year saw the development of HTTP cookie that helped the advertiser and publisher track user behaviour.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The cloud infrastructure unicorn presents an interesting mix of open source and proprietary code, with recurring revenues and a nascent hosted product. Per the company’s S-1 filing, it has “deliberately built [its] products using an open-core software development model.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Mantra Health provider then works with the student to develop a personalized plan that includes therapy, lifestyle changes and medication, if appropriate. Mantra is already in-network with Optum, Cigna, as well as other local payers, and has launched the new insurance referral program as a pilot.

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health mix-use consulting education 90

StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The common thread linking all three experiences is that, chances are, you used an app that relies on workers in the gig economy. Today, gig economy workers exist in practically every sector and include writers, graphic designers, app and web developers, accountants, legal experts, translators and more. Final thoughts.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 27, 2023

These eight finalists are all developing new products, processes, and solutions that are highly innovative and scalable. Ammonia will be used to produce fertilizer, the main resource for plant growth. Over the past ten years, the program has helped create dozens of new tech startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Leaders often approach complex problems using experts and interview-based, analytical techniques that have been honed for complicated challenges.

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leadership mix-use consulting networking 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 27, 2019

Without the right people, the client mix will suffer. Networking + Resilience = Success. We are used to getting information right away, knowing how well we are liked in an instant and gaining feedback and popularity overnight. You get the gist: If one of the areas is missing, the tripod is lop-sided. Be patient.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sony buys Bungie as gaming consolidates : If you have been reading TechCrunch for more than a few days, you’ve seen us cover the Take Two-Zynga deal , and the recent Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal. Today, Sony threw another transaction into the mix, announcing that it will buy Halo-maker Bungie for billions. GitHub for hardware ?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. It has also launched two different acceleration projects aimed at supporting SMEs and startups with mentoring, networking and support services. Will the coronavirus stymie their efforts?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 11, 2023

Organizations can trace data location, access, and alterations across all cloud providers by using multi-cloud data monitoring and governance systems, assuring compliance and lowering the risk of data breaches.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

The startup is using AI modelling to predict how climate change will affect the future growth of forests, combined with remote data capture to monitor customers’ projects and verify improvements to forests — to boost the quality of carbon credits. Are carbon offsets b t? A renowned climate expert weighs in.

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