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The greatest moment to start a company? Right Now!

Jason Calacanis

“If only I had started a company during the desktop PC revolution in the 80s and 90s!” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” “If only I had started a company during web 2.0 in 2005!” I lived through all four of those tech supercycles.

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The Mindset That Entrepreneurs Must Have to Gain Funding for Their Startup

American Entrepreneurship

Finding investor funding for a startup is an enormous challenge, William Santana Li, an intrapreneur at Ford Motor and its youngest senior executive at the age of 28 provides frank insight about startup funding—having raised over $120 million for his robots venture Knightscope. He shares the unconventional and visionary mindset that enabled him to move his startup forward despite great obstacles.

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Releasing Your Inner Tiger… to Save Lives -

Health Tech Capital

Excited to share this amazing podcast on HealthTech and entrepreneurship with Anne DeGheest, a fearless woman leader! In this podcast, she talks about how she turned adversity into gold and developed her entrepreneurial.

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Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution

TechCrunch

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage, until Apple shut it down. Warren, an advocate for stricter antitrust enforcement, posted her support for Beeper on X (formerly Twitter) and questioned why Apple would restrict a competitor. The post indicates […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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How to Improve Your LLM : Combine Evaluations with Analytics

Tomasz Tunguz

The future of LLM evaluations resembles software testing more than benchmarks. Real-world testing looks like this , asking LLMs to produce Dad jokes like this zinger : I’m reading a book about gravity & it’s impossible to put down. Machine learning benchmarks like those published by Google for Gemini2 last week , or precision and recall for classifying dog & cat photos, or the BLEU score for measuring machine translation provide a high-level comparison of relative model perfo

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How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)

A Smart Bear: Longform

If we happened to evolve with nine fingers, we would have "Top 9" lists. So, a "Top 10" list probably doesn't have the correct number of things.

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Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns

TechCrunch

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re looking at a bunch of news — from new unicorns, to a fintech doing good, to one that shut […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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[Intuition Robotics in Scripps News] Robots help provide companionship, health benefits to aging Americans

OurCrowd

Aging can be lonely; it also comes with more health issues and the need for assistance. At a senior housing facility in Plain View, Minnesota, just outside of Rochester, many older adults might find themselves in places where they live alone, and social isolation can come with some health risks. Read more here.

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The possibility of regulation hangs on the horizon over generative AI

TechCrunch

While it's easy to get lost in the hype of generative AI, you have to remember there could be a big governance piece coming. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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[Intuition Robotics in AOL] Robots help provide companionship, health benefits to aging Americans

OurCrowd

The post [Intuition Robotics in AOL] Robots help provide companionship, health benefits to aging Americans appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Amazon loses second AWS India and South Asia top exec in less than a year

TechCrunch

Vaishali Kasture, the executive Amazon appointed as the interim head of AWS India and South Asia, has quit the firm, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, merely seven months into the top role. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment by email and phone. Amazon counts India as one of its […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm

TechCrunch

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself. The startup, which has roots in Germany but […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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US-China tech war escalates over EV battery dominance

TechCrunch

Semiconductors have in recent years become a focal point in the U.S.’s efforts to impede China’s technological advancement. Now Washington has its eye on yet another red-hot tech sector where China is making great strides: batteries for electric vehicles. Earlier this month, the Departments of Treasury and Energy proposed rules that would limit electric vehicle […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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Deal Dive: Making the clean energy transition, well, cleaner

TechCrunch

Nth Cycle is one of the few startups tackling the cleantech's carbon-heavy supply chain and building a cleaner infrastructure for the sector. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps

TechCrunch

Companies embracing the PaaS paradigm must recognize that there won't be a one-size-fits-all workload solution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Cruise faces fines, TuSimple exits the U.S. and a new reporter joins the TC transpo team

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.