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moving design and innovation courses online: emphasize empathy and objectives

Venture Well

When moving your innovation courses online, it's important to focus on objectives and how best to academically and emotionally support your students. . The post moving design and innovation courses online: emphasize empathy and objectives appeared first on VentureWell.

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The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Ian Hathaway

After three eventful years , I’m excited to say that my new book— The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem , with Brad Feld —is officially available to the public today! It’s my first book, so this is a new feeling. It’s hard to put into words just how grateful I am for the experience. I learned so much in the process and developed a large number of meaningful relationships along the way that will last a lifetime.

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In the News: An alternative way to go public is heating up beyond recognition

OurCrowd

Beyond Meat and Lemonade were the best performing IPO debuts of 2019 and 2020 thus far – both companies in which OurCrowd had the privilege to offer our investors before they went public. We are proud to be counted among those who have supported these impactful companies, and look forward to taking part in the journeys of more promising companies in the future.

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YC S20 Virtual Demo Day

Y Combinator

On August 24 and 25, YC will host our 31st Demo Day live over Zoom. After considering community feedback from our first, rapidly planned online Demo Day in March , we’ve decided that a live Demo Day is an important part of founders’ YC experience. The event will span two days, with half the batch presenting on day one and the other half on day two; every company will have one minute to present.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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[BriefCam in Business Wire] BriefCam Takes Innovation to the Edge with Analytics for AXIS Deep Learning Camera Series

OurCrowd

BriefCam, the industry’s leading provider of Video Content Analytics and VIDEO SYNOPSIS® solutions, today announced significant new capabilities to its product portfolio with v5.6.1 of its innovative and extensible video content analytics platform. The new capabilities will help to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and support the safe and responsible re-opening across the globe.

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In uncertain times, grow sales by selling certainty

NZ Entrepreneur

We are all selling in a volatile, uncertain environment. There are still opportunities, but you might just have to look a little harder to find them. And maybe sell something extra to encourage customers with budget to stop ‘sitting on their hands’. One of the biggest sales growth opportunities right now, is to sell what your customers really want. Certainty.

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[Ro in Crunchbase News] Telehealth Startup Ro Nabs $200M

OurCrowd

The company will use the new funding to make care more accessible and affordable, Ro said in a statement. It’s planning on offering remote patient monitoring with integrated devices for at-home testing, urgent care, and management of chronic diseases. In terms of hiring, Ro plans on hiring close to 70 engineers, CEO Zachariah Reitano said in an email.

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Entrepreneurship And The Climate Crisis

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Vinod Khosla penned a fantastic blog post this week outlining how a few entrepreneurs have made a material impact on clean energy and reducing our collective carbon footprint in the last decade and how a few more can move the needle even further in the next one. Vinod starts off with this statement: 12–15 entrepreneurs, driven by entrepreneurial energy and passion for a vision, and a little bit of luck, could change the climate crisis into societal transformation.

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[EMQ in Pymnts] EMQ Closes Funding Round With $20M For Cross-Border Tech

OurCrowd

“As digital transformation intensifies globally, enterprises today are increasingly international in scale, and they will require a network infrastructure like EMQ with greater speed, more certainty, increased flexibility and transparency to expand their business in Asia and beyond,” he said, according to the release. Read more here. The post [EMQ in Pymnts] EMQ Closes Funding Round With $20M For Cross-Border Tech appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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[MigVax in The Jerusalem Post] Coronavirus vaccine: What protection might be available to Israelis soon?

OurCrowd

For the past four years, a team of MIGAL scientists has been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease that affects poultry. The safety and effectiveness of the poultry vaccine has been proven in animal trials carried out at Israel’s Veterinary Institute. Read more here. The post [MigVax in The Jerusalem Post] Coronavirus vaccine: What protection might be available to Israelis soon?

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[RealView Imaging in Israel Hayom] Israeli startup makes medical treatment using floating holograms a reality

OurCrowd

A startup based in northern Israel has made that a reality. And it seems that investors are enthusiastic about the idea, too – last week, RealView Imaging raised $10 million in a Series C round of financing. RealView Imaging’s Holoscope-i system creates 3D volumetric holograms based on data from medical imaging, which float in free space, allowing physicians a unique form of access to the patient’s anatomy during invasive procedures.

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[Ro in Silicon Republic] Digital elective care and telemedicine provider Ro raises $200 million at a reported $1.5 billion valuation

OurCrowd

New York-based start-up Ro has raised $200m for its telehealth platform and new online pharmacy business. Read more here. The post [Ro in Silicon Republic] Digital elective care and telemedicine provider Ro raises $200 million at a reported $1.5 billion valuation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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