Sun.Oct 31, 2021

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ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

TechCrunch

African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser , Ahmed ElKawass , Abdelrahman Hosny in 2020, operates a delivery and fulfilment model.

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How Small and Medium-sized Businesses Can Transition Into a Hybrid Workforce with Ease

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Eric Yu, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President and General Manager. Remote work is becoming a prevalent norm for the future. In fact, according to a recent Lenovo study , 60 percent of small to medium-sized business (SMB) employees prefer working from home some of the time. The study also says, 70 percent of employees think work flexibility makes them more satisfied with their job.

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It’s hard work building a technology business from ground up

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. As Dirk Spiers knows, it’s really hard work building a technology business from the ground up. From 50,000 feet and the hindsight of 20/20, building a startup can look smooth with just a few blips. But down on the ground, the reality is always something else. Spiers New Technologies (SNT) — an exemplary success story — has been in the news these last few weeks as the firm, which literally created an industry, was acquired by Cox Enterprises, a billion dollar privately help glob

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Mashable] Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes! Virgin Hyperloop accelerates plans to launch high-speed cargo delivery

OurCrowd

The super quick service will now be introduced to the UAE in five years instead of the next decade. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Mashable] Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes! Virgin Hyperloop accelerates plans to launch high-speed cargo delivery appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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Harnessing Your Emotional Intelligence as a Female Entrepreneur

StartupNation

Women in the workforce hear it all the time: “You’re so emotional.” It’s a criticism levied at women (usually from men who are afraid to express their own feelings). The subtext is: “You’re too emotional to lead, to make levelheaded decisions, to be a grown-up.”. It’s infantilizing, damaging and, worst of all, aims at our core strength. Because our ability to feel, sense and manage our emotions is actually our superpower. .