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How to protect hybrid work cultures from proximity bias

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts , which helps forward-looking leaders avoid dangerous threats and missed opportunities. A best-selling author, his newest book is Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams. We asked Dr. Tsipursky how leaders can address proximity bias in the new normal of hybrid work culture.

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Clerk bags new capital to improve in-store grocery shopping experience

TechCrunch

Much of the grocery focus over the past three years has been around online adoption, but as long as 90% of U.S. grocery sales still happen in stores, companies like Clerk want to bring some digitization to the brick-and-mortar grocery experience. CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there.

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Akadasia nets $550K in funding to power growth into new markets

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Akadasia , a Singapore-based mission-driven edtech startup is proud to announce that they have raised $550,000 in their latest seed round of funding. This is supported by Singapore’s first edtech accelerator, EduSpaze, Hester Spiegel from the Spiegels Future Family Fund GMBH, Andrew Hwang (Ex-Director of Facebook), Kwok Yang Bin from 6th Horizon LLP (Ex-ZenDesk), SuperCharger Ventures,

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Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist

TechCrunch

Lotti Siniscalco is a partner at Emergence Capital , where she invests in early-stage enterprise software companies. During TechCrunch’s Early Stage event, she headlined a session dedicated to giving feedback on pitch decks. What follows is a small slice of Lotti’s input from the session. Constructing pitch decks is part art and part science.

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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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10 Lessons on Entrepreneurship From Being a Broke Pro Athlete

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I make a living playing a sport you’ve never heard of Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How Noah Kagan Makes Over $350,000 per Month in “Passive” Income

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Work while you’re awake to make money while you sleep Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Does it smell like teen spirit, or teen bankruptcy?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was a live week! Which meant that Mary Ann Azevedo was on the mic with Alex Wilhelm , and Grace Mendenhall, our ever-trusty producer, helped us power through. A big shout-out to Dennis, Julio and Yashad for getting all the tech working well.

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How to Not Waste $40K on a Startup Idea

Entrepreneur's Handbook

To take an idea from zero to one, we’ve got to fuse the engineering mindset with the product mindset Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Boost, RHB consortium receives Malaysia digital bank license

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Boost, the fintech arm of Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and RHB Banking Group (RHB) achieved a significant milestone having secured the highly anticipated digital bank licence (DBL) issued by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). In June last year, the partnership between Boost and RHB to form a Digital Bank consortium was announced, with Boost owning a majority stake of 60%, and RHB owning the r

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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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#26. Don’t Build A Business, Build 1000 True Fans w/ Corey Haines

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from the Founder of SwipeFiles, SwipeWell, and more [link] Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Corey Haines who is a serial entrepreneur. He’s the founder of both SwipeFiles and SwipeWell and other stealth startups. He’s currently the Marketing Lead at SavvyCal, a disruptive calendar SaaS company.

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What Is Media Planning? – Components, Objectives, & Process

Feedough

Today, marketers are spoilt with choices when it comes to. Read more. The post What Is Media Planning? – Components, Objectives, & Process appeared first on Feedough.

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Charged with billions in capital, meet the 9 startups developing tomorrow’s batteries today

TechCrunch

Ford started production yesterday on its F-150 Lightning pickup truck, a do-or-die vehicle that takes the automaker’s — and the United States’ — best-selling vehicle and swaps its gas-guzzling engines for powerful electric motors juiced by more than 1,800 pounds of batteries. The mattress-sized pack can deliver over 300 miles of range, but if Ford wants to win over weekend warriors who tow 28-foot motor boats, it’s going to need better batteries.

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Info Diet: Kajabi President Sean Kim

Andreessen Horowitz

Info Diet offers a peek into the personally curated feeds and media habits of the people shaping the future. In each installment, a different builder spends two days chronicling everything they read, follow, listen to, and watch in order to stay ahead of the curve. This time: Sean Kim, president and chief product officer at. Read More. The post Info Diet: Kajabi President Sean Kim appeared first on Future.

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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.

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How Lydia wants to make payments more personal and social

TechCrunch

Yesterday, fintech startup Lydia unveiled a brand new design for its financial super app. And it’s an opinionated take on mobile payments — not just a fresh coat of paint. I sat down with the company’s founders to discuss the thinking and vision for the future of Lydia. In many ways, Lydia isn’t standing still and keeps reinventing itself. The company started as a peer-to-peer payment app for the French market.

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Grab-led digibank consortium to get Malaysia digital banking licence

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Grab Holdings Limited and Singtel announced that GXS Bank Pte. Ltd. , their digital bank joint venture, and a consortium of Malaysian investors including Kuok Brothers Sdn. Bhd (the Malaysia digital bank consortium) has been selected to receive a full digital banking licence in Malaysia , subject to meeting all of Bank Negara Malaysia’s regulatory conditions.

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Robinhood’s sinking value is proof that ‘free’ can often be very costly

TechCrunch

One thing I love about fintech is the promise of unlocking more tools for more people. In a broad sense, the current era of fintech has done just that — people around the world now have access to financial services that were earlier either completely out of reach before, or, at a minimum, prohibitively expensive. Neobanks , fintech APIs , new savings programs , infinite cards for different payment methods , stablecoins for cross-border payments , cheaper fiat transfers and, of course, zero-cost

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Deep Dive With Baltimore Ecosystem Builder Paulo Gregory

Forward Cities

We are delighted to share reflections from ESHIP Baltimore Local Organizer and Founder of Cohado® , Paulo Gregory. Paulo has been leading the ESHIP Baltimore work since 2020 after serving as a founding member of the ESHIP Baltimore Leadership Team and local council in years prior. Paulo is a dynamic and dedicated ecosystem builder, facilitator, designer, artist, grassroots community leader, and catalyst for racial and economic justice.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M

TechCrunch

Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest on making AI more reliable and explainable. Its $124 million in funding was surprising then, but nothing could have prepared us for the company raising $580 million less than a year later. “With this fundraise, we’re going to explore the predictable scaling properties of machine learning systems, while closely examining the unpredictable ways in whi

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Policing in America: The Impact on the Entrepreneur

Forward Cities

If entrepreneurs are the “key” to disrupting persistent generational wealth inequities, the “lock” is the communities they serve. When an entrepreneur taps into their passion, whether it’s entertainment, beauty, or food, they provide resources or means that enhance the community. In Black and Brown neighborhoods, these businesses are even more significant.

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[Freightos in The Load Star] Airfreight forwarders still rely on the spot market, despite controlling capacity

OurCrowd

The move by forwarders into medium- and long-term air charters and their own controlled networks has not impacted the rise and rise of airfreight booking platforms. Freightos’ WebCargo platform has seen 300% growth, year on year, noted CEO Zvi Schreiber. Read more here. The post [Freightos in The Load Star] Airfreight forwarders still rely on the spot market, despite controlling capacity appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding product-market fit, pitch deck teardown, getting into YC

TechCrunch

Earlier this month at TechCrunch Early Stage, I talked to Frederique Dame, an investing partner at GV, about product-market fit. A standing-room-only crowd packed the venue as Dame spoke about her experience leading product and engineering efforts at Uber, Yahoo and Smugmug, sharing some of what she learned about gathering customer data, iterating quickly to validate ideas, and the challenges that come with scaling teams from a few dozen people to several thousand employees.

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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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[ReWalk in GlobeNewswire] ReWalk Joins Israeli Technology Innovation Consortium for Human-Robot Interaction

OurCrowd

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics, Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”), a leading manufacturer of robotic medical technology for people with lower extremity disabilities, today announced its membership in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Consortium, part of the Israel Innovation Authority’s MAGNET incentive program.

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Vyoma is the latest player seeking to prevent satellite collisions with space junk

TechCrunch

As you might’ve heard, it’s getting a little crowded in space, between thousand-satellite constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink and the millions of pieces of space junk accumulated from decades of launches. But it’s also getting a little crowded in the space-monitoring space, with a number of companies competing to create observation systems to help satellite and launch operators protect their assets from orbiting debris.

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Newsletter: Making lab-grown meat affordable

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: ProFuse, accelerating the future of lab-grown meat Let’s create new fuel before we become fossils May 2nd Online: Startups and the Ukraine crisis IBM, AMD embrace Israeli AI technology Amazon’s $1B innovation fund invests in BionicHIVE OurCrowd startups participate in EcoMotion 2022 Remilk to open world’s largest animal-free dairy factory in Denmark InZiv raises $10M for high resolution display inspection technology Cyabra sniffs out fakes and bo

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