Fri.Apr 24, 2020

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Entrepreneurs Around the World Make the No Layoff Pledge

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As the US stretches to nearly a full month of a pandemic-related economic shutdown, the number of people who filed for unemployment benefits has reached more than 26 million. Lines at food banks recall images captured during the Great Depression. Today’s pictures are in color and depict expanses of cars or casually dressed people donning masks. Among these grim images and disheartening statistics, however, optimism shines through.

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Three Strategies to Survive COVID-19 for Small Businesses in the Food Industry

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Verónica Vásquez Cuerno | U.S. Embassy to El Salvador. Celina Portillo, CEO of Auténtico Bistro & Café, conducted a virtual roundtable with members of the YLAI Network in El Salvador. The issue on everyone’s minds was how to get their businesses through the current crisis caused by the health risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and by the quarantine that has forced them to close their restaurants.

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Funding Friday: ROAR

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Yesterday, Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef/owner/creator of Prune , a tiny twenty-year-old restaurant in the east village that The Gotham Gal and I and our family have always loved, wrote a piece in the New York Times that really captures the sense of loss we all feel around our favorite local places, particularly for the people who made them what they are every day, day after day, year after year.

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Tres estrategias para enfrentar la crisis COVID-19 para pequeñas empresas del sector de la preparación y entrega de comidas a domicilio

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Verónica Vásquez Cuerno | Embajada de Estados Unidos en El Salvador. Celina Portillo, directora ejecutiva de Auténtico Bistro & Café , condujo una mesa redonda virtual con integrantes de la Red YLAI de El Salvador. El tema en boca de todas era cómo enfrentar la crisis actual generada por los riesgos de salud asociados a la pandemia de COVID-19 y por la cuarentena que les ha obligado a cerrar sus restaurantes.

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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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Holberton School Tulsa hosts virtual panel discussion for emerging coders

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Emerging Oklahoma coding professionals are invited to a free virtual “Diversity in Tech” opportunity on April 30 from Holberton School Tulsa to hear from panelists as they share their secrets to leveling the playing field in the tech industry. Check it out. More info.

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[MigVax in Jewish News Syndicate] Israeli developers of corona vaccine to initiate human clinical trials in summer

OurCrowd

The company MigVax said it will be possible to manufacture millions of doses of the potential vaccine, made using bacterial fermentation. Read more here. The post [MigVax in Jewish News Syndicate] Israeli developers of corona vaccine to initiate human clinical trials in summer appeared first on OurCrowd.