TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. He characterizes his process as “simple,” but that is a bit reductive: after reviewing a deck and scheduling a meeting with the founders, he’ll spend many hours acquainting himself with both the underlying technology and the individuals on the team. “For seed deals, I spend a maximum of 10 days so I can give an answ

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 10, 2022

The Love’s Cup business plan competition offers a real world experience for aspiring entrepreneurs. By Scott Meacham. Spring is the high season for the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup. January was kick-off time for this 18h season of Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. Student teams in both high growth and small business divisions spent the winter in the real world process of market research and validation, writing a business plan, and honing presentations for potential in

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Arrival, a U.K.-based electric vehicle company that went public last year, has set itself a lofty goal. The company aims to produce electric vehicles that cost less than other EVs and competes with pricing on fossil fuel-powered vehicles. A lofty goal requires a bold plan. For Arrival, that means bypassing the traditional large-scale or even “giga-sized” factory used by major automakers and instead turning to a much smaller and decentralized approach.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 10, 2022

Mike Masnick wrote a good piece on this topic on his Techdirt blog last week. I particularly like this part: First, let’s look at the world without any content moderation. A website that has no content moderation but allows anyone to post will fill up with spam. Even this tiny website gets thousands of spam comments a day. Most of them are (thankfully) caught by the layers upon layers of filtering tools we’ve set up.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and

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OurCrowd

APRIL 10, 2022

The staff of Israeli field hospital “Kohav Meir” visited a refugee camp for Ukrainians displaced from their homes equipped with advanced VR goggles, and telehealth devices to diagnose patients remotely. Read more here. The post [TytoCare in Calcalist] Israel’s field hospital in Ukraine using VR to treat refugees appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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