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Will tech kill your job?

Berkonomics

Close. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Yup. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before.

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - June 22, 2017

FundersClub

FundersClub Portfolio News. Flexport plans to open a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Atlanta and is scouting for about 25,000 square feet of office space in Midtown, which will add more than 200 jobs in " Freight industry disruptor Flexport plans $100 million Atlanta hub. " Instacart will now handle orders for Wegmans grocery store, with deliveries initially available in suburbs near Washington, D.C., and a few dozen more cities within the coming months in " Instacart Will Delive

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5 Best Practices of a Robust Mentorship Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jessica Moseley is an EO member in Washington, D.C., and CEO of TCS Interpreting , providing world-class language access to the deaf community. The agency has developed a robust internship and mentorship program. Jessica shared best practices for developing such a program. Internships provide practical business experience as a student or other novice narrows the scope of their chosen profession.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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A Call to Brains: Can We Mobilize Education Like Manufacturing in WWII?

This is going to be BIG.

"In May 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 185,000 aeroplanes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and 18 million tons of merchant shipping in two years. Adolf Hitler was told by his advisors that this was American propaganda; in 1939, annual aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war US factories had produced 300,000 planes,[2][3] and by 1944 had produced two-thirds of the Allied military equipment used in the war." - Wik

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My US$15-Million Lesson in Choosing a Business Partner

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Mike Whitaker, author of The Decision Makeover. The most expensive lessons in my life have been due to poor choices in business partners. In fact, I lost more than $15 million dollars in 2010 in the demise of my manufacturing business because I was vulnerable to my partners and bankers. When things are going great, partners behave great. When things turn, you find out the truth.

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What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and y

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Why Amazon's Acquisition of Whole Foods Matters for Startupland

Tomasz Tunguz

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is notable for many reasons. Of course, there’s the magnitude $13.7B. The second is the shockwaves reverberating through the grocery industry. Costco fell 10% and Kroger almost 25% on the news. Third, the acquisition underscores the importance of physical retail even to the largest American ecommerce giant.

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To hone your writing, hire a translator.

Derek Sivers

Deutsch English Español Esperanto Français Português Русский 中文 日本語 한국어 العربية حتى تتمكن من صقّل كتاباتك، قُم باستئجار مترجم. Um dein Schreiben zu verbessern, engagiere einen Übersetzer. To hone your writing, hire a translator. Por perfektigi vian skribon, dungu tradukiston. Para perfeccionar tu escritura, contrata a un traductor. Pour aiguiser votre plume, engagez un traducteur.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Was it Their Internship. or Mine?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Elliott Holt is an EO Nashville member and CEO of MediCopy Services, Inc. , offering simple, secure solutions for healthcare information management. He was originally uncertain about the benefits of having student interns, but his initial experience changed his outlook completely, as he shares here. As an entrepreneur, the thought of student internships has long represented a double-edged sword.

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What the Online Advertising World Can Teach Us about the Evolution of Machine Learning in SaaS

Tomasz Tunguz

In software, we’ve moved from a world where a customer buys a piece of software to run on their own infrastructure, to a world where a customer pays a vendor to run software on the vendor’s infrastructure. With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this. Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers.

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