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DECEMBER 5, 2022

These are the first marketing images of an upcoming movie that I star in with my daughter Mirren about an aging superhero that is absolutely too old for this s**t that winds up having to save some mystical star child. Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. Enthusiasts will tell you that this is the beginning of being able to insert yourself into video games, recreate scenes of things that happen to you in the pa

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Employee burnout figures are on the rise, a fact that no company should ignore. According to Gallup research from 2021, nearly three-quarters of all employees report sometimes feeling burned out. And that’s not good for them or their organizations. Yet burnout isn’t inevitable, including among frontline employees. Frontline workers tend to be especially susceptible to burnout.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT to write the essay than to write it themselves.

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Superstar, cult-like CEOs make for great press. How many times have you read an article about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg that makes it sound like their companies’ success rested entirely on their shoulders? It makes for a compelling human story, but these are myths. That is not how the world works. Without a great supporting team, these CEOs could never deliver on their promised vision.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In July, I wrote about how Y Combinator is building a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is building an Andreessen Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz is building a Y Combinator.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register In partnership with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied, Seedstars recently launched Seedstars Capital, an investment platform for emerging venture capital (VC) fund managers. Seedstars, in a statement, said that the platform partners with “emerging and diverse managers with local expertise and unique strategies and provides the necessary resources to launch new fund

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 7, 2022

ESPOO, Finland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), the European leader in building superconducting quantum computers, and Keysight Technologies, a leading provider of advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to research the development of a quantum computing solution to enable on-premises high-performance computing (HPC).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars , he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, and building a venture firm later, before Nagpal returned to the moment as one of the early catalysts for his newest startup, Ocho.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Justin Breen self-describes as “a Dad who happens to be an entrepreneur.” His own father died when Justin was just 13, so spending time with his sons, ages 8 and 10, takes precedence over all else. Five years ago, Justin started his public relations company, BrEpic Communications , with zero business experience. After being a journalist for 20 years, Justin created his company for two reasons: 1.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Profitability or net income margin has become the most important correlate to public software company valuations. But public companies are less profitable today than a year ago. Surprisingly, PLG companies’ profitability has suffered more than sales-led businesses. Across every quartile, public software & infrastructure companies have seen a 5 percentage point drop in net income since Covid.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: SynergyMed, transforming surgery with 3D printing and visualization Women tech leaders in the spotlight at OurCrowd Summit OurCrowd in UAE: Why AI? Why Abu Dhabi? Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M Series B UBS joins Shield investors in $20M Series B C2A Security brings full lifecycle EV protection to Asian market OurCrowd hosts German business executives Teampay raises $47M, expands partnership with MasterCard UK’s Poolbeg Pharma uses CytoReason’s AI-mo

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., text, images, audio) based on what they learned while “training” on a specific set of data.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Attention aspiring entrepreneurs! Are you passionate about using generative AI to create innovative products and services? Do you have a great idea that you're looking to bring to life, but you're still missing the perfect co-founder to make it happen? YC is excited to announce our first-ever generative AI themed co-founder meetup, happening virtually on Saturday, December 17th at 11am-1pm PST.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Prismforce , an India-based vertical software as a service (SaaS) firm , has announced recently that it raised fresh investments amounting to $13.6 million in series A of its funding round. In a statement, the company said that it will utilize the funds to enhance its product suite, strengthen go-to-market capabilities and grow its talent base.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2022

How do you get your team to focus and move forward effectively? . A fellow CEO recently told me of her method of assuring positive movement within her team. She holds a weekly meeting of her direct reports and asks them to find three important but actionable items for the group to work on if not complete during the following week. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). For example, some mining and energy companies have adopted private cellular networks to help facilitate operations that span over significant distances, where the increased range of cellular offers advantages compared to the Wi-Fi alternatives.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jeff Bezos’ net worth is around $114 billion dollars right now , which isn’t the highest net worth he’s ever had. In previous years, Jeff Bezos has had a net worth of $150 billion , or even $200 billion! But since a lot of his net worth is tied up in his companies, it rises and falls with market fluctuations. With hundreds of billions of dollars to his name, you might think that Jeff is the richest person in the world right now—right?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register ResortPass , a pioneer in offering day access to luxury hotels and resorts around the world has raised $26 million in Series B funding that it would use to scale the organization and expand to more global destinations in 2023. ResortPass has also announced the appointment of Michael Wolf as its new CEO.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Early on during medtech and biopharma’s journey into digital innovation, many technology conversations centered on “build versus buy” and whether developing underlying technology in-house or partnering to adopt an existing platform would deliver greater efficiency, functionality and return on investment. Read more here. The post [BrightInsight in Forbes] The CIO’s ‘build versus buy’ conundrum is now ‘build versus build’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Max Schireson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Max Schireson is an operating partner at investment firm Battery Ventures. He was previously the CEO of database company MongoDB. More posts by this contributor. For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. It’s always hard to run a startup, but at least in 2021, you knew what you were supposed to do: Grow fast.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter! You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss What startups can learn from trillion-dollar companies. The key pillars to starting a business. Let’s do this. Building a 15-person or a 1.5 million-person company? Read this Amazon grew from 1 to 1.5 million employees.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 7, 2022

2022 brought new connections and perspectives as we met with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, and ecosystem builders on the ground in startup communities across the country. [link] Our travels and our portfolio inevitably inspire our gift-giving strategy every year. So this holiday season, we’ve compiled a cross-country guide of Revolution-backed brands to shop and share with your friends and family this winter.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

YAVNE, Israel and NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Highcon (TASE: HICN) today announced a $8M investment by Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) in the context of a strategic collaboration between the two companies. The scope of the strategic collaboration includes the following components: Read more here. The post [Highcon in PR Newswire] Highcon and SEE announce strategic collaboration appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Several years ago, on a dairy farm in the small Irish village of Dundrum, four technologists — Maxim Dressler, Ryan Lasmaili, Shaun Mc Brearty and Tilo Weigandt — brainstormed solutions for what they saw as a fundamental problem in data security: unencrypted text files. According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks to the Hospitality Management High School in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan to do an Hour of Code with the students there.

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