Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The pandemic was the strongest catalyst for workplace change I’ve seen in my lifetime. It disrupted the way work was done, which means it also impacted how leaders operate. Remote and hybrid work became the new normal overnight, and leaders had to quickly transition to new processes and systems. Why was the shift to remote work so powerful? It challenged leaders to think beyond the status quo.

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Every early stage investor knows that deal flow is a critical component of driving successful returns. Without a flow of potential deals, you cannot invest, and without good deal flow management, you may miss important investment opportunities. We’re offering up a perspective on the benefits of using professional tools to simplify your pipeline management, enabling you to spend more time on value-creating activities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

VCs continue to bet big on legal tech. According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. Contract management vendors have benefited in particular as contracting workloads increase; contracting teams at large organizations now manage an average of 19,000 contracts a year while the busiest organizations manage more than 50,000, according to a 2021 EY survey.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There’s much more to generative AI than heroic avatars and tongue-in-cheek art. The potential applications are widespread, from drug discovery and therapy to writing, game development, education, ecommerce, and more. Last week, five a16z partners met on Slack to debate … The post a16z Slack Debate: Will Generative AI Supplant Therapists, Game Makers…Friends?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s commonly held that solar panels need as much sun as they can get. That’s true, but only up to a point, as heat and other hazards can become a serious problem beyond that point, and solar panels can degrade pretty quickly. SmartHelio wants to help prevent that from happening. The startup uses AI tech to measure live data (current, voltage, weather parameters) from solar plants and offers suggestions for fixes when a solar array starts underperforming. “Every summer, my pare

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Anzu Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp, Scout Ventures, Silicon Catalyst Angels, Schams Ventures, E14 Fund and Alumni Ventures. Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. “Now was

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you want to know what your current job will be like in a few years if you stay, just take a look at your boss. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Just over a decade later, Adar created an internal division, Nerdio , focused on helping other managed service providers move their customers to the cloud.

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GCUC

DECEMBER 14, 2022

GCUC Podcast Recap: Nicole Vasquez Take a step into the sweet spot of life as Nicole Vasquez, Cofounder and Chief People Officer at Deskpass, dives into what coworking styles. Read More.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 billion in revenue by 2030, up from $76.75 billion last year. So we are seeing a number of startups throng around this market. Thus, HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is betting that a decentralizing payments is an ideal solution for DFS platforms.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One thing about luck: it runs out Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Singapore-headquartered startup Plugo has secured $9 million in a Series A funding round. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MIAMI, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Shyft, the fintech-powered marketplace reinventing the global moving industry, today announced that Ken Myers has been named Chief Technology Officer, effective December 19. Myers is an industry veteran specializing in the design and development of technology platforms and solutions that improve the customer experience. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The conversation in startup land has shifted from building in public to, hey, maybe let’s just figure things out internally before we scream to the masses. At least that’s what I’m gleaning from the growth story of Murmur , a startup that wants to make decision-making easier for private companies. Built by entrepreneur Aaron Dignan , Murmur launched its closed beta in 2021 with a vision to create a public forum of private work agreements so companies could scale remote policies faster.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Fintech is increasingly touching every aspect of our lives, from retail to banking to blockchain, and now it’s coming for employee benefits. But how could fintech innovation change employer benefits? Read more here. The post [Future Family in Forbes] Fintech Is coming for benefits: Best practices for employers appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, and happy Wednesday! As I write this, I am also enjoying a virtual “holiyay” celebration with my fellow TechCrunchers. Haje is leaving on a jet plane, but he’ll be back tomorrow. Let’s dive into the news. — Christine.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2022

TEL AVIV–(BUSINESS WIRE)–New research from Classiq, the leader in quantum software, indicates that companies understand the tremendous economic opportunities that quantum computing represents and across sectors are hiring or planning to hire quantum talent. The research also reveals that organizations are investigating quantum applications in their various sectors – and patenting their own quantum software intellectual property – in a big way, with businesses in the financial sector

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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.

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Deepika Padukone’s skincare startup 82°E, pronounced Eighty Two East, said Wednesday it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding, as the Bollywood star makes further push into the startup world. DSG Consumer Partners and IDEO Ventures are among those who backed 82°E , said the startup, which began offering self-care products such as moisturisers and sunscreen drops to consumers in over 30 countries last month. 82°E says its products are formulated in-house by R&D experts and feature 

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Interview with Ofer Sharon. Ofer Sharon is the CEO of OncoHost, a biotech company in the precision oncology space. A physician by training, Sharon has leveraged his experience in pharma drug development and entrepreneurship to lead OncoHost through the development of PROphet, the company’s host response profiling platform, which will launch in the U.S. for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in February 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Steve Goldberg. Contributor. Steve Goldberg is the chief revenue officer at Salesloft, where he helps salespeople be more successful, drive more revenue, and generate more pipeline. During an economic downturn, it’s easy to focus on negative headlines about layoffs and declining business performance. But revenue teams still have targets to meet. Now is the time to get creative.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2022

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR, today announced a new integration with Deep Instinct, the first company to apply end-to-end deep learning to cybersecurity, and its endpoint solution. This powerful integration makes it easy for enterprise and MSSP customers using the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform to deliver Deep Instinct’s unsurpassed prevention capabilities across the entire attack surface.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Heather Gantt-Evans. Contributor. Heather Gantt-Evans , M.S., CISSP is chief information security officer at SailPoint. Carrying out the mandate of the chief information security officer (CISO) has never been easy, but today’s increasingly fraught digital landscape has made it even more difficult. What’s more, new and complex compliance requirements have opened the door for potential personal criminal liability in the event of a data breach or other cyber incident.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Tracking metrics and benchmarking is a critical part of scaling a growth-stage company, but there are a lot of common failure modes. For instance, it’s easy to fall prey to confirmation bias and manipulate your numbers to tell the story … The post Introducing a16z Growth’s Guide to Growth Metrics appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It may seem like SaaS is everywhere, but there’s one sector that’s been slow to adopt it — manufacturing. By itself, manufacturing drives almost 11% of the U.S. economy, contributing $2.77 trillion to GDP as of Q2 2022. All that activity also uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of greenhouse gasses. But if manufacturers could wring out extra production from their existing factories, they could go a long way to trimming the sector’s carbon footprint.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When 66% of people think about a soft drink, they. Read more. The post What Is Top Of Mind Awareness (TOMA)? appeared first on Feedough.

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