Sat.Mar 13, 2021

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo is a former Google and Twitter manager and current CEO of Céntrico Digital , a Latin American-based digital agency. More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?

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How to Get the Best Talent to Work for Your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Science fact — The best teams make the best companies. So build a killer team. Here’re four ways to attract them Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Grant Program Announced for Black Women-Owned Businesses in Detroit (and How to Maximize Your Chances of Securing Relief)

StartupNation

Small businesses make up an astounding 99.6% of Michigan businesses and 49% of the state’s employees—that’s 1.9 million people. Since the onset of the pandemic, these businesses have been forced to endure a tumultuous journey that has meant drastic budget cuts, layoffs and a complete strategy pivot. However, businesses haven’t had to face this crisis alone, and as the economic impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt, there are still opportunities for startups and small businesses to access relie

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How a 75-Year-Old Stranger Helped Revive My Dying Side Hustle

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I only needed a few reasons beyond money to give it one last go Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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[OurCrowd CIO Dr. Hasanat Dewan in Zawya] Microsoft cloud to generate $27bln revenues, 69K new jobs in UAE by 2024

OurCrowd

Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem will generate $27 billion in new revenues by 2024 in the UAE, according to a research by the International Data Corporation (IDC). This ecosystem is expected to propel the UAE economy upwards from the 2020 level, creating jobs and driving investment in local economies, including in sustainable solutions which will see a reduction in atmospheric carbon.

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[BrainQ in The Jerusalem Post] Israeli start-up develops ‘artificial brainwaves’ to treat strokes

OurCrowd

BrainQ, an Israeli startup in the field of medical technology, has developed a new innovative therapeutic platform for treating victims of strokes, as highlighted in a press release from the company on Thursday. Read more here. The post [BrainQ in The Jerusalem Post] Israeli start-up develops ‘artificial brainwaves’ to treat strokes appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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How Selling Has Changed Post-COVID, and How it Will Change Again Afterwards

Tomasz Tunguz

Recently, Jim Benton joined us for Redpoint Office Hours to share insights from his vantage point as CEO of Chorus.ai on how sales has changed during the COVID era. Jim shared many data points that opened up my eyes to some of the challenges and the opportunities before modern sales professionals. I took away three key ideas, though we covered much more in the session.

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Value Creation: How Is Customer Value Created & Measured?

Feedough

Value is the spine of the business ecosystem. The customer is the centre of the system having all the necessary resources to make it sustain. And only the market players that provide value to the customer get to stay in this system. Precisely, the value is the barter businesses make in exchange for their existence. It’s the fundamental concept that drives the economy today.

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Why ‘blaming the intern’ won’t save startups from cybersecurity liability

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SolarWinds is back in hot water after a shareholder lawsuit accused the company of poor security practices, which they say allowed hackers to break into at least nine U.S. government agencies and hundreds of companies. The lawsuit said SolarWinds used an easily guessable password “solarwinds123” on an update server, which was subsequently breached by hackers “likely Russian in origin.” Former SolarWinds chief executive Sudhakar Ramakrishna, speaking at a congressional hea

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What I Learned From Four Unfinished Side Projects

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Ideas, solutions, what went wrong, and how you can avoid the pitfalls Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Should there be some law against raising three times in one year?

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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch , but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Every quarter we dig into the venture capital market’s global , national , and sector-based results to get a feel for what the temperature of the private market is at that point in tim