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EO Australia Members Give a Helping Hand

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Peta Strachan, Operations Manager at Free 3D Hands , a mission-based charity in Australia that designs and 3D-prints prosthetic hands and assistive devices for free. Earlier this year, EO members from all around Australia attended EO Ignite – Reignite Your Passion, a regional event at stunning Hamilton Island, located in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef.

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5 key IP considerations for AI startups

TechCrunch

Eric L. Sophir. Contributor. Eric L. Sophir is an IP partner at law firm Foley & Lardner LLP where he counsels clients in AI, digital health, manufacturing and other industries. Matthew Horton. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matthew Horton is a senior counsel and IP lawyer at law firm Foley & Lardner LLP where he focuses his practice on patent law and IP protections in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning and more.

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Job Applicant Turned Down Your Offer? How To Ask Them To Refer a New Candidate for the Role.

Hunter Walk

The Art of Asking “If Not You, Who Should I Talk To?”. I failed. You see, there was a really talented Consumer Product Manager at Google that I was trying to get over to YouTube. He’d decided to leave Mountain View and work on a new startup, but I thought there was an opening. Maybe he was running away from the increasingly process-driven and bureaucratic nature of the PM role?

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Green card sponsorships, startup prenups, agtech VC survey

TechCrunch

In the early days of a startup, everyone is on the same page. But there’s no way to know how well a founding team will get along by the time a company reaches maturity. Set aside the romantic notion that startup teams consist of visionary mavericks who are building the future in real time; they’re also human beings, with all of their flaws. Nearly anything can tear a co-founder relationship asunder.

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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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Why You Should Never Kill a Money-Making Product (Even If It Doesn’t Scale)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I ignored this advice and learned one of the biggest entrepreneurship lessons Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Taking Your Customer’s Side Is The Most Underrated Growth Hack

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Don’t go to war against your prospect; fight on their side of the battlefield to win for you both, while they claim victory. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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What gloom? Data show it’s still a great time to build a SaaS startup

TechCrunch

On the heels of news that the U.S. venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. Thanks to a new sheaf of data from SVB , we can see quite clearly that the macro picture for IT is robust and venture capitalists have an ocean of capital to put to work.

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The best places to be a digital nomad in Italy

Founder Bounty

Italy is one of the most beautiful places in the world to work as a digital nomad and so we have compiled a bunch of great cities where it would be easy to work Italy has also started issuing digital nomad visas to people coming from abroad looking to relocate. Digital nomad Visas in Italy: Check this out to get updates on when the digital nomad visa will be available.

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Daily Crunch: Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M

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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. Friday! How’s that for brevity in newsletter introductions? Let’s get to it so we can crack open a Liquid Death and let the week sag off into the murky distance of memory sooner rather than later. — Christine and Haje.

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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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Static HTML comments

Derek Sivers

If you have a static HTML website, but you want to include comments, here’s an interesting way to do it using PostgreSQL’s NOTIFY and LISTEN. The big idea is to write the comments as static HTML, only when comments change , instead of doing a database query to display them every time. This prevents the “hug of death” if you get a burst of traffic. I’ve been doing it this way for over six years, and it works great.

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Elon and Twitter’s will-they, won’t-they (and other TC news)

TechCrunch

This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Dom about how conservative VCs are using their dollars to shape the world, and we spoke with Taylor about how the Musk train just keeps on rumbling along. On the topic of billionaires… “A big chunk of the conversation that is missing is just that it’s all about money, and that the economics of everything is what really drives politics and the motivations of politicians.

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On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Smart Contract Implementations

Andreessen Horowitz

… The post On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Smart Contract Implementations appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market

TechCrunch

It’s a rote story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries are falling , leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies. That’s true when we consider nation-level populations. It’s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the pace at which global startups reach the $1 billion valuation threshold.

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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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SG food delivery tech startup klikit raises $2m to help SE Asia’s restaurants

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register klikit , a Singapore-based startup that seeks to help Southeast Asian restaurants grow further, has just raised $2 million in pre-Seed funding, according to an announcement. The funding round was co anchored by Wavemaker Partners and Global Founders Capital.

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What happened when this entrepreneur put her startup on hold to help Ukraine, and told VCs to donate

TechCrunch

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based tech entrepreneur Irra Ariella Khi , co-founder of Zamna , set up a fundraising page to directly support people inside Ukraine. Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children. Khi then temporarily stepped back from her day job at Zamna (which runs a blockchain system to securely share and verify passenger identities for airlines and travel authorities).

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Nice try, startup, but that’s not your serviceable obtainable market (SOM)

TechCrunch

There’s one issue I have started to see more and more often: Startup founders, in their desperation to show how big their markets are, overstep the mark significantly, claiming numbers for their TAM/SAM/SOM that are unobtainable and absurd. I get it: You want to seem like you’re building a very valuable company. But in the pitch process, you still have to maintain a sense of honesty.

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Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation

TechCrunch

Fintor , a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android. It also just raised a $6.2 million extension funding round from its existing investors, including Public.com, Hustle Fund, 500 Global, VU Ventures, Graphene Ventures and angel investors such as Manny Khoshbin, Andy Madadian, Cindy Bi and Marcus Ridgway.

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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.