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2 Reasons Why Forums Are Important for the Mental Health of Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Steven Dudley, mindset and performance coach for entrepreneurs and competitive athletes. Forums, also called mastermind groups, hold a special place in the world of entrepreneurship. Forum can provide value for any niche group, but it is especially valuable for entrepreneurs. From my personal experience, the hardest and yet most imperative part of the entrepreneurial journey is the fight between the ears.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it characterizes the space in which we live, the environment in which we work, and the places where we socialize. Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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Inheriting a Legacy: How to Run a Family Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Many of you have a family business that you either inherited, that you bought, that you got pushed into, shoved into, or that you chose to be a part of. It’s important to talk about the route of entrepreneurship when you’re working with or for family. Ramon Ray interviewed Nancy Larick of Larick Associates about stepping into a family business and the interesting dynamics that come along with it.

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Bringing Hope to Marginalised Young Women

Impact Hub

14 years ago, an American teenager travelled to Zimbabwe to follow one of her passions, mbira music. To fully familiarise herself with the Zimbabwean culture, Jennifer Kyker stayed in the high-density Harare suburb of Highfield, where she became good friends with girls of her own age. A couple of months later, Jennifer returned to America. It was only years later, when she again visited Zimbabwe, that she discovered that most of the girls she had grown to love had left school, ran away from home

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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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Staying Ethical in a Digital Age

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The advent of the digital age has brought new challenges in the realm of personal and professional ethics. News outlets and digital media continue to become increasingly accessible, and an increase in participation has weakened many outlets’ ability to regulate the accurate spread of information to the public. So when participating in the spread of information, one must maintain the highest commitment to accuracy and honesty in that information.

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Looking inward in an era of ‘fake news’: Addressing cognitive bias

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Judith E. Rosenbaum and Jennifer Bonnet. In an era when everyone seems eager to point out instances of “fake news,” it is easy to forget that knowing how we make sense of the news is as important as knowing how to spot incorrect or biased content. While the ability to analyze the credibility of a source and the veracity of its content remains an essential and often-discussed aspect of news literacy , it is equally important to understand how we as news consumers engage with and react to the i

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Seven to Ten Years

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have worked in three venture capital firms over the last thirty-three years and am intimately familiar with the performance of the fifteen (ish) venture funds raised and invested by these three firms. Much of what I have written about fund management and investment performance here at AVC over the last sixteen years comes from my observations of these funds and firms.

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STOP – Stop, Reflect, Verify [video]

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In the video settings, you can select subtitles for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Video transcripts are available in English [PDF – 83KB], Spanish [PDF – 81KB], Portuguese [PDF – 79KB], and French [PDF – 80 KB]. Once you watch the videos, download the event facilitation guide available in English [PDF – 249KB], Spanish [PDF – 234KB ], and Portuguese [PDF – 229 KB].

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[TechSee in PR Newswire] TechSee Releases Results of Study on Visual Assistance’s Impact on Customer Service KPIs

OurCrowd

TechSee, a global leader in Visual Customer Assistance powered by AI and augmented reality, today released the results of an extensive data analysis it conducted to explore the impact of its technology on contact center and customer service KPIs. Read more here. The post [TechSee in PR Newswire] TechSee Releases Results of Study on Visual Assistance’s Impact on Customer Service KPIs appeared first on OurCrowd.

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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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VERIFY – Stop, Reflect, Verify [video]

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In the video settings, you can select subtitles for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Video transcripts are available in English [PDF – 83KB], Spanish [PDF – 81KB], Portuguese [PDF – 79KB], and French [PDF – 80 KB]. Once you watch the videos, download the event facilitation guide available in English [PDF – 249KB], Spanish [PDF – 234KB ], and Portuguese [PDF – 229 KB].

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[Innoviz in TechCrunch] Innoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars

OurCrowd

Just a few months ago, Innoviz became one of the better capitalized lidar startups when it announced it had raised $132 million in a Series C funding round. But that wouldn’t be the end of it. Read more here. The post [Innoviz in TechCrunch] Innoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars appeared first on OurCrowd.

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REFLECT – Stop, Reflect, Verify [video]

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In the video settings, you can select subtitles for English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Video transcripts are available in English [PDF – 83KB], Spanish [PDF – 81KB], Portuguese [PDF – 79KB], and French [PDF – 80 KB]. Once you watch the videos, download the event facilitation guide available in English [PDF – 249KB], Spanish [PDF – 234KB ], and Portuguese [PDF – 229 KB].

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[Lemonade in TechCrunch] Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe

OurCrowd

Lemonade, the insurance company that’s raised $780 million, is today expanding into Europe with the launch of Lemonade in Germany. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in TechCrunch] Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe appeared first on OurCrowd.

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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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Apegarse a la ética en la era digital

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Kameron Dunbar. La llegada de la era digital ha generado nuevos retos en el plano de la ética personal y profesional. Las agencias de noticias y los medios digitales siguen volviéndose cada vez más accesibles, y el aumento en participación ha debilitado la capacidad de muchos medios de regular la diseminación de información certera al público. Entonces, al diseminar información, debemos tener el mayor nivel de compromiso con la exactitud y la honestidad.

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[Wave in The Wall Street Journal] Tax Prep Giant H&R Block Rides the Wave

OurCrowd

Shares of the tax preparation company jumped 3.3% Tuesday, on course to notch one of its biggest one-day gains of the year, after it posted better-than-expected earnings and said it would buy Canadian firm Wave Financial. Read more here. The post [Wave in The Wall Street Journal] Tax Prep Giant H&R Block Rides the Wave appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Why Product Innovation Slows After the Series A

Tomasz Tunguz

You’ve found product market fit. You’ve hired a team, including some managers. Your initial, small customer base is very happy. You’ve discovered an initial channel of customer acquisition that’s working. You’ve raised a meaningful round of capital. And then, right then, product innovation decelerates to zero. The fast pace that characterized the past 12-18 months, when you would germinate an idea and write the code in less than a few days, has evaporated.

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[Innoviz in Forbes] Don’t Tell Lidar Foe Elon Musk But This Maker Of The Robo-Car Vision Tech Just Raised $170 Million

OurCrowd

Innoviz Technologies, a maker of laser lidar sensors for self-driving and highly automated cars, just closed a $170 million funding round, its biggest to date, weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk savaged the technology that every major developer of autonomous vehicles uses as a “fool’s errand.”. Read more here. The post [Innoviz in Forbes] Don’t Tell Lidar Foe Elon Musk But This Maker Of The Robo-Car Vision Tech Just Raised $170 Million appeared first on OurCrowd.

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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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Vacation Insights

Continuations

I just spent nearly two weeks in Israel and Jordan on a family vacation. We saw amazing sights and met fascinating people. More than with other travel, and maybe due to some recent reading , the trip crystallized three insights for me 1. Humanity is capable of pulling off incredible projects 2. Humanity’s progress is fragile and large scale reversions happen 3.

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