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Celebrating 25 Years Supporting Innovation

Innovation 2 Enterprise

As I reflect on the past two and a half decades, I am filled with immense pride and gratitude for the journey that i2E has embarked upon. Our 25th anniversary is not just a milestone – it’s a testament to the unwavering dedication of a community committed to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. To mark this important occasion, we recently held an event that brought together many of our partners, entrepreneurs, supporters, and friends.

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How to create a 1M+ views Instagram Reel for your startup

NZ Entrepreneur

Matt Miller, founder of BrakeAce , made a Reel for his startup that got 1M+ views in ten days. He shares his learnings for startup founders here. 1. Making a dope Reel was a good investment of time Between recording, editing and publishing I only spent one hour. There was time to develop the vision of the piece before implementing it, but that’s harder to quantify.

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5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There is no easy path. The elevator is broken and you need to take the stairs and climb fast. For the past 10 years, I have been on an accelerated career growth path. I went from Jr. Engineer to Engineering Director, navigated through 2 acquisitions, held over 1000s interviews, and built teams and engineering organizations. From my own experience and from the experience of helping other people develop their careers, I wanted to share 5 lessons that I found very useful and that will hopefully hel

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Hiring global talent for new-age startups in South Korea

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register In recent years, South Korea has emerged as a vibrant hub for new-age startups, powered by technological innovation and entrepreneurial zeal. However, these companies face an uphill battle, including one due to the country’s aging population and the resulting talent shortages.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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ispace unveils new lunar lander that will fly to the moon in 2026

TechCrunch

Japanese space company ispace has invested over $40 million in its new U.S. subsidiary to-date, as it looks to take advantage of growing investment from NASA and the Pentagon in technologies for the moon. The level of investment is a mark of ispace’s “strong commitment to the U.S.

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There’s One Question Every Entrepreneur Needs to Be Able to Answer for Investors

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learning to structure your pitch around this one question is the key to raising capital.

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How to Balance Retirement Savings With Other Financial Goals as an Entrepreneur

Startup Blogpost

How to Balance Retirement Savings With Other Financial Goals as an Entrepreneur Balancing retirement savings with other financial goals is a common challenge for entrepreneurs. To provide guidance, we’ve gathered eight insightful tips from co-founders and financial market strategists. From the importance of paying yourself first and diversifying investments, to considering your business type in your retirement strategy, these experts share their best advice.

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How Real-Time Payments Alleviate The Credit Crunch for Small Business Owners

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s been a tough few years for the U.S. economy, especially for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Rising interest rates and a tightening credit market are making it difficult for some businesses to access capital. Banks granted about 18.8% of loan applications in June , down sharply from early 2020, before the pandemic, when they approved nearly half of all loan requests.

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[CropX in AgriNews Network] Zuari FarmHub collaborates with CropX Technologies for advanced farming solutions: Introducing smart agronomic farm management systems to provide a boost to precision farming in India.

OurCrowd

The post [CropX in AgriNews Network] Zuari FarmHub collaborates with CropX Technologies for advanced farming solutions: Introducing smart agronomic farm management systems to provide a boost to precision farming in India. appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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On TikTok, videos promoting steroids are exploding — and at times targeting teens

TechCrunch

In a new report, a social media watchdog group details how steroid content is exploding in some TikTok communities, promoting potentially dangerous and often illegal substances while propagating unattainable body image ideals to boys and young men.

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Introducing the a16z Global Payments Hub

Andreessen Horowitz

a16z’s Fintech partners analyze Intuit’s new AI assistant, JPM’s partnership with Gusto, and mark a recent embedded fintech development.

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A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

TechCrunch

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS.

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Are you meeting your customer’s expectations?

Berkonomics

First customers are critical. Greatly exceed expectations at all costs. There is so much history behind this insight, and so many stories that illustrate this point. Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more…nefarious side. In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its launch just a few months ago.

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[BioLumic in iHeart] Bill Gates award for New Zealand sustainable rice production

OurCrowd

Around a year ago, we interviewed the founded of Palmerston North company BioLumic. They’re increasing the yield and productivity of crops with light treatments. At our current rate, many crops won’t be able to keep up with feeding the planet. Listen here.

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Your website can now opt out of training Google’s Bard and future AIs

TechCrunch

Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone’s knowledge or consent. Now you have a choice whether to allow your web content to be used by Google as material to feed its Bard AI and any future models it decides to make.

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[OurCrowd in Bloomberg] AI is Everything: Medved

OurCrowd

Jon Medved, OurCrowd Founder & CEO has the latest in Saudi-Israel normalization talks and believes AI is everything. He speaks with David Westin on “Wall Street Week Daily.” (Source: Bloomberg) Watch here.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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Federal agency sues Tesla for racial discrimination of Black workers

TechCrunch

The EEOC filed suit against Tesla, accusing the automaker of violating federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees.

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[The EVERY Company in Food Navigator] The EVERY Company champions precision fermentation, hires new VP of R&D

OurCrowd

The post [The EVERY Company in Food Navigator] The EVERY Company champions precision fermentation, hires new VP of R&D appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Medium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers

TechCrunch

Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages for content used to train the company’s AI models. But the real news may be that a group of platforms may soon form a unified front against what many consider an exploitation of their content.

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[DailyPay in NBA] Charlotte Hornets and Spectrum Center partner with DailyPay to offer employees on-demand pay

OurCrowd

The post [DailyPay in NBA] Charlotte Hornets and Spectrum Center partner with DailyPay to offer employees on-demand pay appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Judge upholds $18 minimum pay for NYC delivery workers

TechCrunch

In a blow to Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub, a New York judge on Thursday ruled to allow the implementation of the minimum pay rate of $18 per hour for New York City’s food delivery workers.

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Honda forms largest EV partner network in the US despite not yet selling an EV in the country

TechCrunch

Honda is touting today that drivers of its EVs will soon have access to the most amount of charging locations in America. This is thanks to just-announced agreements with EVgo and Electrify America, two of the largest EV charging networks in the States.

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Review: Tablo DVR gives users a major upgrade with its free ad-supported TV offering

TechCrunch

Tablo has always been a niche product, Grant Hall, founder and CEO of parent company Nuvyyo, admitted to TechCrunch. However, as more cord-cutters become frustrated with streaming services raising their prices, OTA (over-the-air) DVRs and TV antennas are making a comeback. The Consumer Technology Association reported that 36 million U.S. households own an antenna.

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Mixin hacked for $200M, Worldcoin eyes greater expansion and Haun Ventures’ execs talk crypto regulation

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. We’re gearing up for the highly anticipated Sam Bankman-Fried trial. As for other news, it’s been an interesting and somewhat slower week for the crypto community.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in