Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The YLAI Network hosted Michael Goldberg , a professor of entrepreneurship and an expert in international business development, for a Facebook chat in November for Global Entrepreneurship Week. Michael answered questions from network members requesting advice for their entrepreneurial endeavors. Many themes came up, such as overcoming issues with funding, navigating unstable governments, expanding your business, and dealing with competition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Written for EO by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, disaster avoidance expert , speaker and author. . It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because they did well in their previous job, not based on their potential to meet the needs of the new position into which they are placed, even when the new role requires a wholly different set of skills.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2019

. STATE COLLEGE, PA – Have you ever wondered what it would take to run your own startup? Six local entrepreneurial teams led by Raymond Robinson, Catherine Rogers, Sheridan Miyamoto, Brennan Holderman, Joseph Sinclair/Mandy Heard, and Steve Lutz just completed a ten-week business startup boot camp, the Tech Celerator @State College. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Connecting to customers now happens primarily on social media and online, through email and chats. Many times a customer issue can be solved in one of these formats, but sometimes, a good old fashioned phone call is needed. Do your employees know how to talk to customers on the phone? It wouldn’t be shocking if their phone skills need work if their primary focus is online customer service. .

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the US Digital Service and previously he was the head of the webspam team at Google. You can find him on Twitter at @mattcutts. Topics. 00:00 – Intro. 00:18 – Working at Google in 2000. 2:30 – Did Google’s success feel certain? 3:35 – Building self-service ads. 7:05 – The evil unicorn problem. 8:05 – Lawsuits around search. 10:30 – Content moderation and spam. 14:20 – Matt’s progression over 17 years a

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Y Combinator has a lot planned for 2020, including reaching more people with our worldwide events, going bigger with Startup School and serving our ever-growing communities of founders and developers. To make that all possible, we’re growing our YC team. Here’s a quick rundown of the roles we have open: Product Engineer, Startup School (San Francisco, CA).

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you’ve probably read some of our other articles about what every early stage company board director should know. In this post we’ve outlined not only the attributes of a great board meeting vs. a poor one, but also some learning and best practices.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

My friend Fraser took a large number of AVC blog posts over the years and trained an AI model on them. The result is a blog written by a machine. You can see it here. One one hand, it is kind of amazing that you can train a machine to write like someone. On the other hand, I don’t think I will be out of a job anytime soon.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Israeli startup Sight Diagnostics said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had cleared its device that can process results for the most commonly needed blood test in about ten minutes. Read more here. The post [Sight Diagnostics in Nasdaq] U.S. FDA clears Israeli startup Sight Diagnostics’ finger prick blood test appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With the regulatory nod, Sight Diagnostics can have its computer-vision powered blood analyzer be sold to hospital labs to provide lab-grade results within 10 minutes on just two drops of blood. Read more here. The post [Sight Diagnostics in MedCity News] Israeli fingerprick blood testing company gets FDA clearance for CBC analyzer appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, leading crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is sharing the news that their portfolio company Sight Diagnostics is succeeding where Theranos failed. Read more here. The post [Sight Diagnostics in Crowdfund Insider] Where Theranos Failed, OurCrowd Portfolio Company Sight Diagnostics Succeeds as FDA Clears Finger-Prick Blood Test appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

San Francisco-based Flynn Restaurant Group partnered with DailyPay to offer instant pay services, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in Restaurant Dive] Flynn Restaurant Group adopts instant pay across its 1,200 restaurants appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Beyond Meat Inc. and Impossible Foods Inc. are considering China as their next big market for plant-based meat products, but local startups aim to leverage their own knowledge of Chinese tastes to gain an edge over the U.S. companies. Read more here. The post [Beyond Meat in The Wall Street Journal] American Companies Are Hungry for a Cut of China’s Fake-Meat Market appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

OurCrowd Sync: São Paulo 2019, which took place on September 25, 2019, was the first in a series of major global events that bring a taste of the flagship OurCrowd Global Investor Summit to a key region. As the first large OurCrowd event in Latin America, it was a resounding success. The turnout far exceeded expectations, with over 1,000 people registered to attend and extensive press coverage, reflecting the high local interest in venture capital and Israeli and regional tech.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Sight Diagnostics, an Israel-founded company that develops lab-grade blood testing systems, announced on Wednesday that it received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its OLO analyzer, a device that performs blood tests and provides lab-grade results in minutes. Read more here. The post [Sight Diagnostics in NoCamels] Blood diagnostics firm Sight gets FDA nod for device that delivers results in minutes appeared first on OurCrowd.

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