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4 Benefits of a Branded Podcast and Why Now’s The Time to Launch Yours

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Is your company looking for creative ways to stand out and connect with your target audience? While traditional marketing methods and GTM (go-to-market) motions continue to be used, there’s a new strategy you can tap into — the branded podcast. Podcasts have a lot of upside for marketers. From leaping funnel stages with decision makers to creating mass quantities of compelling content, the branded podcast is following the growth path of the inbound blog toward a table-stakes position in an organ

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Why It's Good to Be Transactional

This is going to be BIG.

When people describe what they hate about networking, they often use the word “transactional” in a negative way. No one likes to sell or be sold anything—or to be only valued for your ability to exchange goods and services right there on the spot. That, however, is a very privileged perspective on time. People who can take the time to “get to know each other” without demanding anything right off the bat have both extra time and also enough stability in their lives to be able to forgo short term

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Seraf Toolbox: Modeling Tool for an Early Stage Investment Portfolio

The Seraf Compass

One of the biggest challenges faced by early stage investors is to assemble a portfolio of investments that in aggregate return more than 2 times the original amount invested in the total portfolio. In the language of Venture Capital, the goal of a successful early stage investor is to achieve a Distributed to Paid-In (DPI) ratio greater than 2X. In other words, for every dollar you invest in your portfolio, you want to get two dollars back over time.

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Startup productivity in the age of AI: automate, deprecate, delegate (A.D.D.)

Jason Calacanis

Over the past decade, I invested in over 350 startups and watched up close as founders figured out how to do more with less. Startups, by their nature, are resource-constrained organizations when compared to the legacy businesses they are trying to displace. Thanks for reading Jason Calacanis on Startups! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Innovation or folly? The Cybertruck will test whether anyone still trusts Tesla

TechCrunch

The Tesla Cybertruck, the first of which will be delivered Thursday four years after its debut, is loved and loathed. For fans, it’s a symbol for what Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk stand for: creativity, irreverence, rebellion. Others see it as an act of hubris. It could be both. Either way, the stakes are […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M

TechCrunch

Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, is the latest venture capital firm to announce its new fund, securing $230 million in capital commitments for its third fund, raising the largest amount to date. It’s been a great couple of weeks for new VC funds.

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Top Small Business Resources for Starting and Growing Your Business        

American Entrepreneurship

Start your small business with access to commonly used resources. Owning a small business brings both great satisfaction and great challenge. Most important for a small business to succeed is to keep moving forward—which means the entrepreneur must always be on the lookout for resources that will help the business grow and become profitable. The following are core small business resources that almost every startup and small business value: S mall Business Administration (SBA): A federal U.

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Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

TechCrunch

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins with […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Byju’s Valuation Drastically Cut by Prosus: Now Under $3 Billion Only

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register India’s Edtech startup company Byju’s faces a sharp drop in its valuation. This massive plunge occurred after investment giant Prosus slashed Byju’s value to less than a sixth of its original valuation. This massive plunge reportedly happened due to the startup company’s ongoing challenges.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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ZEG Tbilisi Storytelling Festival: For stories that matter

Impact Hub

ZEG Tbilisi Storytelling Festival: For stories that matter Established in 2019, the ZEG Tbilisi Storytelling Festival is a creative collaboration showcasing Georgia’s culture and fostering transformative conversations among diverse professionals. Co-founded by Impact Hub Tbilisi and Coda Story, it strives to be an inclusive platform, earning global acclaim by 2023 and promising continued evolution in its mission for future narrative shaping.

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Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead

TechCrunch

Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in 2023, while the educational app Imprint: Learn Visually won as Google Play’s best app. Meanwhile, Apple and Google agreed on their Game of the Year, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Circularity in action: Social projects in Caracas

Impact Hub

Circularity in action: Social projects in Caracas Lata de Agua and Proyectos MAF are two remarkable Venezuelan initiatives that exemplify the principles of the circular economy. Both ventures showcase how creative thinking and disruptive solutions can bring positive change to longstanding issues while fostering community collaboration. Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp At the heart of the CirculUP!

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Why is cybersecurity venture funding so tepid despite the strong demand?

TechCrunch

Has late-stage investing declined so much that no technology subsector can really post impressive investment numbers? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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GCUC will take place in Salt Lake City in 2024

GCUC

GCUC will take place in Salt Lake City in 2024 GCUC Conference Announces Salt Lake City, Utah, as Host City for 2024 North American Conference The Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) is thrilled to.

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AWS Clean Rooms ML lets companies securely collaborate on AI

TechCrunch

Amazon’s launching a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Rooms ML — an offshoot of AWS’ existing Clean Rooms product — the service removes the need for AWS customers to share proprietary data with their outside partners to build, train and deploy AI models. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Circularity in action: Circular projects in Portugal

Impact Hub

Circularity in action: Circular projects in Portugal Rizoma and Studio 8 are pioneering ventures based in Portugal, each embodying a strong commitment to the principles of sustainability and the circular economy. These two success stories not only demonstrate the power of circular practices but also inspire mindful engagement with local culture and the pursuit of more inclusive, eco-friendly, and sustainable futures.

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[Oxx in Forbes] Oxx Closes $190 Million For New European SaaS Fund

OurCrowd

London and Stockholm-based software investor Oxx has closed its new fund at $190 million to invest in software-as-a-service companies in Europe. Read more here.

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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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Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach

TechCrunch

U.S. access and identity management giant Okta says hackers stole data about all of its customers during a recent breach of its support systems, despite previously stating that only a fraction of customers were affected. Okta confirmed in October that a hacker used a stolen credential to access its support case management system and steal […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[BrightInsight in GlobeNewswire] BrightInsight ranked 307th Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500

OurCrowd

The post [BrightInsight in GlobeNewswire] BrightInsight ranked 307th Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Elon Musk says ‘go f**k yourself’ to advertisers leaving X

TechCrunch

Your move, Linda. Elon Musk said “go f**k yourself” to advertisers who recently paused spending on X after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the platform. Onstage at the DealBook conference, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked the X owner about these pauses in advertising. Musk replied, “Don’t advertise.” “You don’t want them to advertise?

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[TytoCare in MobiHealthNews] TytoCare scores exclusive partnership with Idaho healthcare system

OurCrowd

Virtual primary care company TytoCare announced an exclusive partnership with Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System to provide virtual care services to the care provider’s members and employees beginning in 2024. Read more here.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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SpaceX acquires parachute company for $2.2M – because it turns out space-rated parachutes are very hard

TechCrunch

SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes — until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. The Information first reported the news. This is the second known acquisition for SpaceX, which acquired small satellite startup Swarm […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[EquipmentShare in News Press Now] Central Missouri-based company brings over 150 new jobs to Moberly

OurCrowd

Moberly is welcoming in new workforce growth as a Mid-Missouri-based company opens its doors in the small city. EquipmentShare held a grand opening for its new Moberly location Tuesday morning. Read more here.

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Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator

TechCrunch

Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so. During a keynote at its re:Invent conference this morning, Amazon debuted Titan Image Generator, which is now available in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock, Amazon’s AI development platform. A part […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in Newswires] BlueGreen Water Technologies presses for action on water at UN Climate Conference

OurCrowd

The post [BlueGreen Water Technologies in Newswires] BlueGreen Water Technologies presses for action on water at UN Climate Conference appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.