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Seeking a positive note in the state’s dominant industry

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. Continuing the quest of gathering opinions from leaders and influencers across Oklahoma on the topic of “first the pandemic and then what,” I turned to Walt Duncan, president of Duncan Oil Properties, Inc., a long-standing, privately held oil and gas exploration and production company. “The declines that we saw in April and May were unprecedented,” said Duncan.

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Why Startups Should Establish Qualifying Signals for Sales Teams Early On

Tomasz Tunguz

Demand generation limits growth. To scale, a company must find customers in ever larger numbers. The ideal scenario is one where purely external signals confer a prospect’s propensity to buy. A prospect experiences hypergrowth is perfect example. Massive headcount growth presages large software purchases and expansion. A company anoints a new department head catalyzing change.

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Fox Exclusive] Hyperloop Could Be the Change Required To Transform Transportation of Passengers and Freight in India

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Harj Dhaliwal , Managing Director for Hyperloop One’s the Middle East and India region noted the potential the company has in India. He said, “India is home to the fastest growing global economy, a vibrant young workforce, and world-class high-tech engineering skills. It makes an ideal market to launch Hyperloop.”. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Fox Exclusive] Hyperloop Could Be the Change Required To Transform Transportation of Passengers and Freight in India appeared first

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

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If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. SPACs are all the rage, and everybody and their brother have either raised one or are talking about raising one. What are they, and do they matter right now? Historically they have been a kind of back-door way for a company to go public, and as a result have historically had a sub-standard reputation.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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[Innovalve in CTech] ALIVE Fund leads financing round for mitral heart valve maker Innovalve

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Innovalve grew out of inventions and patents developed by Sheba Medical Center experts Prof. Ehud Raanani the director of Sheba’s Cardiovascular and Thoracic Center and Dr. Boris Orlev, head of the center’s Mitral Valve Surgery Unit. The company has developed an artificial mitral valve that can be replaced using a minimally-invasive catheter to help treat patients suffering from heart disease.