Fri.Mar 22, 2024

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Why You Should Give Your Best Stuff Away (Plus 3 Other Startup Tips)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contrary to the glamorous façade often portrayed on social media, entrepreneurship is far from a leisurely stroll through the park. It’s not all champagne toasts and photo shoots. Guiding your startup to success demands much more than dreaming up a brilliant concept, launching a captivating social media campaign, and crossing your fingers that magic will happen.

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The Misleading Attractiveness of S Corp Elections

Gust

Investors prefer investing in Delaware C Corps which don’t allow founders to take personal tax losses for early expenses. Many founders are tempted to make an S-Corp election which allows a pass-through tax treatment similar to an LLC. While that could be a small short term gain in the early days, it can jeopardize a much larger tax free gain in the future ($10M+).

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Pricing and Packaging Your B2B or Prosumer Generative AI Feature

Andreessen Horowitz

Effectively monetizing any new technology is a race to capture market share while still giving yourself room to grow your business. But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins.

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Packback Announces Strategic Investment from PSG Equity

HPA

We are thrilled to share that Packback , an AI-driven writing and discussion platform within the HPA Portfolio, has received a strategic majority investment by PSG Equity , a prominent growth equity firm. Packback’s proprietary AI technology provides inquiry-based online discussion and long-form writing support. The company’s mission is to harness the power of AI to help educators implement high quality pedagogy at scale.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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2024 Thiel Foundation Fellows Announced

American Entrepreneurship

20 young bright minds forego academic study to participate in a two-year program. The Thiel Foundation continues its commitment to innovation and disruption achieved by bright young minds, outside of academic studies, by announcing its 2024 class of Thiel Fellows. The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011. The Fellowship gives each participant $100,000 and access to a valuable support network of tech founders, investors, scientists, and former fellows.

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[Hailo in TechStreet Now] Hailo chooses Visidon to enhance video quality in low-light conditions

OurCrowd

Hailo Technologies Ltd designs and develops microprocessor. The Company focuses on building AI processors to compute and interpret vast amounts of data in realtime processors that can be embedded in the edge devices themselves.

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[Stoke Space in VoxelMatters] Stoke Space acquires Solukon’s SFM-AT800-S depowdering system

OurCrowd

Stoke Space, a US space launch company building some of the world’s most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rockets by 3D printing copper thrust chambers, has chosen Solukon’s SFM-AT800-S depowdering system to further enable automated manufacturing. Read More here.

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[AEYE Health in FORTUNE] AI is upending eye exams for patients and providers—in a good way: ‘It’s been a godsend for us’

OurCrowd

The post [AEYE Health in FORTUNE] AI is upending eye exams for patients and providers—in a good way: ‘It’s been a godsend for us’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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