Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

By Elise Kemp. Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. The results of this woman’s hard work and innovation are cutting-edge technology solutions to the biggest problems in Ecuador. Tamara is a chemical engineer by profession, but her heart is also dedicated to children’s rights, and she, alongside four friends, started a business to combine these two passions.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of the most controversial topics in the startup community relates to the issue of investing through convertible notes vs. investing through preferred stock. Much has been written about this topic for the past decade, and the debate continues to rage in the blogosphere even today. Even though this topic has been covered by others, we felt it was important to give our perspective.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2020

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs comes when their enterprise grows from being a small shop of 10 people to a midsized company of 100 or more. Entrepreneurial decision-making must change to account for this growth, but it often doesn’t due to our desire to avoid losses. To illustrate why, let me tell you a story.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 29, 2020

OurCrowd, the global crowdfunding venture investing platform and Israel’s leading venture investor, will feature Dr. Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel prize winner in medicine, among the experts at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit on Feb. 13. Murad will discuss how technology can help prevent the development of deadly diseases. The subject has been catapulted back into the headlines with the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus in China.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 29, 2020

Since launching AVC 3.0 on January 9th, we have had some site reliability issues. The most common issue is a “too many redirects” error that has been reported by many people and is intermittent and not easily reproducible. That said, a number of you have been able to create.HAR files and send them to me. Thank you for doing that. Siteground and Cloudflare are now debugging this issue and we hope to have it resolved soon.

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Health Tech Capital

JANUARY 29, 2020

How LOW can we go? We need to take a serious look at American values. and people who are destroying them for pure greed even at the expense of increasing opioid addiction with the risk of killing people! These bad.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 29, 2020

BioCatch is taking a look back at 2019 to warn consumers about the growing threat of digital fraud. The company noted in a new blog post that digital fraud has been steadily rising every year, and cited several studies that show that that trend continued heading into 2020. Read more here. The post [BioCatch in Find Biometrics] BioCatch Calls Attention to Rising Rates of Digital Fraud appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Continuations

JANUARY 29, 2020

The Democratic primary is coming into focus and it is not a pretty picture. Essentially the choice comes in two groups: incrementalists (Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar) and socialists (Sanders, Warren). The incrementalists want to go back more or less to the Obama years, while the socialists want to go back to the 1970s in Europe. For the incrementalists digital technology is nothing special and for the socialists it is mostly an evil to be fought.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 29, 2020

Signals Analytics, an AI-powered platform, helps companies in the food and pharmaceutical industries identify trends and capitalize on troves of previously untapped data streams. Read more here. The post [Signals Analytics in Tech Republic] CBD, meatless options will dominate 2020 food industry trends appeared first on OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 29, 2020

The nation’s largest fried chicken chain announced Wednesday that it had struck a deal with Beyond Meat to sell plant-based nuggets in more than 60 restaurants in the Charlotte, N.C., and Nashville markets. If the three-week test is successful, the plan is to offer the menu item at KFC’s roughly 4,000 U.S. outlets. Read more here. The post [Beyond Meat in Los Angeles Times] Beyond Meat tests plant-based fried chicken in KFC trial appeared first on OurCrowd.

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