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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in the number of women pursuing entrepreneurship, with an estimated 40 percent of new businesses in the United States started by women. In Australia, we’ve seen similar growth, with the number of businesses owned by women increasing to over 35 percent in 2022. There are many reasons that we are seeing more women show interest in owning their own business.

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San Diego Angel Conference Opens 2024 SDAC VI Fund to Angel Investors, Applications for Founders Seeking Funding Closes on Dec. 19th

American Entrepreneurship

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019. December 08, 2023 10:35 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN DIEGO—San Diego Angel Conference at the University of San Diego (SDAC) activates angel investors and connects them with early-stage companies seeking seed funding. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. to explore angel investing and join the

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From Bacteria to Bedside: The Arrival of CRISPR Medicine

Andreessen Horowitz

Originally discovered in bacteria, CRISPR quickly became the workhorse gene-editing system underlying the next generation of programmable medicines. Today’s landmark approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ and CRISPR Therapeutics’ Casgevy, the world’s first CRISPR-based treatment, marks a groundbreaking shift in how we tackle intractable diseases.

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Kill Or Be Killed: Why You Need To Constantly Stalk Your Competition

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you’re not paying attention, then you’re already losing. Do you pay attention to your competition? If not, you’re losing money. For whatever reason, in recent years, it has become trendy for startups to declare their disdain for competing. They like to emphasize how they are “focused on their own mission” instead. As if their business becomes a more noble pursuit.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets

TechCrunch

High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3 to 5 times invested capital. Several leading India investors including Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Nexus and Accel have raised $500 million-plus in the past two years, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up faces ‘relevant merger’ scrutiny by UK regulator CMA

TechCrunch

The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month concluded with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his surprise dismissal — and a much bigger role for Microsoft, which ended up with a seat on the board for the first time since investing billions into the startup earlier this year. That new, cosier relationship […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Why You Hate Networking and How to Change That

Entrepreneur's Handbook

6 insights from a Google Exec Andertoons.com / Passive networking Look at your LinkedIn page. How many connections do you have? Most likely hundreds or even thousands. Is that your network? I would say no, and we will see why. A couple of days ago, I finished an Executive Leadership program alongside 100 other participants who wanted to explore how to become better, more effective leaders by increasing their influence and impact.

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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android

TechCrunch

Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage, the company reported via a post on X on Friday. And Apple is to blame, it seems. Users, including those of us at TechCrunch with access to the app, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AD Summit Reception Registration

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked

TechCrunch

DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked Personal data is the new gold. The recent 23andMe data breach is a stark reminder of a chilling reality – our most intimate, personal information might not be as secure as we think. It’s a damning indictment of the sheer negligence of companies that, while […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[IronVest in Security Brief] IronVest CMO predicts rise in CNP fraud & masking tech use in 2024

OurCrowd

As the New Year approaches, CMO and Co-Founder of cybersecurity app IronVest, Guy Bauman, shares his predictions for the key cybersecurity trends of 2024. Read more here.

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Ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan on why he ‘had to get over’ shock data breach conviction

TechCrunch

Before joining Uber as chief security officer in 2015, Joe Sullivan served for two years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice, where he specialized in computer hacking and IP issues. He worked on a number of high-profile cases, from the first case in the U.S. of prosecution under the Digital Millennium […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[The EVERY Company in PR Newswire] EVERY® unveils world’s first liquid egg made without hen at Eleven Madison Park

OurCrowd

The post [The EVERY Company in PR Newswire] EVERY® unveils world’s first liquid egg made without hen at Eleven Madison Park appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Gag City is a viral win for Nicki Minaj

TechCrunch

Welcome to Gag City, the pink metropolis inhabited by stans and brands alike. In the days leading up to the release of “Pink Friday 2,” Nicki Minaj’s fifth studio album and sequel to her debut record “Pink Friday” that dropped on Friday, Twitter was flooded with AI-generated images of pink-toned cityscapes. Gag City, the dreamy […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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[Axiom Space in HoustonInno] Axiom Space cuts ribbon on new Houston Spaceport headquarters

OurCrowd

The Houston Spaceport’s newest facility — the Axiom Space Assembly Integration and Test Building — is open for business.

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Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water

TechCrunch

The trends that we can spy inside the data are an effective argument against the era in which startups were encouraged to stay private as long as possible. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How to Build a Strong Brand for Your Startup

Startup Blogpost

How to Build a Strong Brand for Your Startup In search of the most effective strategies for startup branding, we’ve gathered fourteen diverse insights from CEOs, Founders, and Marketing Managers. From leveraging a founder’s personal brand to the importance of honesty in shaping brand reputation, this article unveils the key elements that can forge a strong brand identity for your startup.

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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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OpenAI taps former Twitter India head to kickstart in the country

TechCrunch

OpenAI is working with former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as a senior advisor to facilitate talks with the government about AI policy, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. OpenAI is also looking to set up a local team in India. People familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that Jaitly has been helping OpenAI navigate the Indian policy […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Travelsist hopes its air travel concierge will take off from Atlanta

TechCrunch

Founded by a former flight attendant, Atlanta-based startup Travelsist and its Travelsistants provides assistance to travelers on behalf of airports and airlines. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Mulch and the enduring appeal of internet absurdism

TechCrunch

I am haunted by mulch posts. The most recent mulch video came to me in the middle of the night, when I was hours into scrolling through a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. The video was an edit of a tiny dog surrounded by a frame of glittering hearts, with an AI-generated voice narrating, “Today, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Will December bring startup winter?

TechCrunch

Borrowing has become more expensive, and profits are harder to come by, which means that 2023 has been a savage year in startup land. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Threads is rolling out its hashtags without the hash symbol globally

TechCrunch

Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to tag only one topic per post to avoid tag spam. The company began testing the tag feature in Australia last month, and it is now rolling out […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Report: FAA should improve investigation process after a rocket launch goes awry

TechCrunch

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has let launch providers conduct their own investigations in nearly every instance that a launch mishap has occurred since the start of the century — a practice that needs closer scrutiny, a federal watchdog said in a new report. The report, published Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Deep tech startups must use these 4 techniques when fundraising

TechCrunch

It is imperative to show that investors' money will go into a product that genuinely has the power to change the world. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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With its second app, Amo wants to make photo-sharing as simple taking a photo

TechCrunch

Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated launch, ID was Amo’s first idea. Today, the social consumer startup is releasing its second app called Capture. Once again, this new app will be dissected by social app enthusiasts and other companies working in this […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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.