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turning the tide: how Beall Applied Innovation champions educational equity

Venture Well

When leaders at UCI BAI discovered VentureWell’s Advancing Equity report, they used it as a blueprint to develop a DEI framework for their organization. The post turning the tide: how Beall Applied Innovation champions educational equity appeared first on VentureWell.

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Power in People: Humans Will Determine Digital Transformation Success

StartupNation

Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. According to the Economist , one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” We were already expecting a transition to digital transformation thanks to technological advancement, dubbed the “fourth industrial revolution.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

Our world is changing, and fast. With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies.

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Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital

TechCrunch

Brett Lovelady. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP.

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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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i2E adds experience and talent to better help Oklahoma entrepreneurs

Innovation 2 Enterprise

We’re still the same i2E that has served Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community for the past 22 years, providing business advice to nearly 800 startups and investing $79 million in 187 companies. We’ve celebrated 11 major exits and one “unicorn” among our portfolio companies over more than two decades of service to Oklahoma. Now, we offer even more to Oklahoma’s founders to keep up with the growing demand for our services through our subsidiary, i2E Management Company, Inc.

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NYC’s Tech Resurgence

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Early in the pandemic, we were all deluged with stories of tech workers, companies, and founders leaving Silicon Valley for Miami and Austin. And that was true. But from my personal experience, they also left for many other places too, including Los Angeles and New York City. I met with a founder last week who has left the bay area for good and now splits his time between homes in LA and NYC.

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Indian online learning platform Vedantu becomes unicorn with $100 million funding

TechCrunch

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Vedantu, which last month refuted rumors of it considering a sale to Byju’s , said on Wednesday it has raised $100 million in its Series E financing round that valued it at $1 billion, up from about $275 million early last year.

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Oklahoma Innovation Model working at its best with SNT acquisition

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. The acquisition of Spiers New Technologies is the Oklahoma Innovation Model working at its very best. At i2E, we are in the business of commercializing new technologies. It’s exciting work, especially when we have the opportunity to connect with a new startup in the first year or two of its existence and continue to support the company as it grows. ].

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No Better Future without Better Business

Impact Hub

The UN indicates that greenhouse gas concentrations are at their highest levels in 2 million years and emissions continue to rise. 2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. As a consequence of climate change, we are also seeing the collapse of biodiversity and the growing acidification of oceans – and it does not stop there. This phenomenon is directly affecting people’s health, safety, housing and ability to grow food – and it is even more concerning when we observe it through inters

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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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Why Employers Should Consider Recruiting Remote Employees

StartupNation

One lesson the COVID pandemic has taught us is that employees do not need to work in the same location as their employer to be productive. This has since opened up a much larger pool of candidates for companies as they no longer need to focus on recruiting in areas near an office location. This may be a new way of doing things for many employers, but there are a lot of benefits to recruiting remote employees.

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Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications

TechCrunch

As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has built technology to make that process move faster and more efficiently is announcing a round of funding to address those enterprises’ evolving needs.

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Height - The Project Management Tool for the Modern Worker

Tomasz Tunguz

Today, Height.app launched out of private beta, and we’re thrilled to announce Redpoint has partnered with the Height team, especially Michael & Kat, who hail from Stripe and Facebook. We were captivated by Height when we met the team several years ago. In particular, the company aspired to a vision of enabling cross-functional teams to work better together, particularly as organizations grow.

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Slack: The Green Light Isn’t an Indicator of Productivity

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Jenn Fulmer, a content writer for TechnologyAdvice , IT Business Edge, and Baseline. There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. If employees constantly worry about keeping their green light on, they can’t focus on their actual work. Many managers are worried about the productivity of their remote workers and want a good way to measure it.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Entrepreneurs Must Optimize Their Fundraising Strategy to Move Forward

StartupNation

Despite the recent radical economic changes, entrepreneurs have been resilient and adapted their business models to cope and sometimes even go public. However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can optimize their fundraising strategy by learning to avoid cash management pitfalls and how investors evaluate startups.

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DNA-based data storage platform Catalog raises $35M

TechCrunch

Conventional electronic media like flash drives and hard drives require energy consumption to process a vast amount of high-density data and information overload and are vulnerable to security issues due to the limited space for storage. There is also an expensive cost issue when it comes to transmitting the stored data. To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing

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Amplitude (W12) is going public

Y Combinator

Today, Amplitude, which was part of YC’s W12 batch, is going public. Their story of grit, determination, and creativity, is an epic one. Spenser and Curtis first applied to YC in 2011, but their idea, a new version of Mechanical Turk, did not impress YC’s reviewers at the time, and although they were clearly brilliant hackers, that first application was rejected.

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5 Ways to Practice Self-Care When Working From Home

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Chris Mut, CEO of nerdytec UG, an innovative lap desk producer. Eco-friendly, improving productivity, and reducing stress levels… Are we talking about holidays? Not quite. In fact, these are all benefits of the home office —if done the right way. Unfortunately, we often associate the home office with children interrupting video calls, late-night working hours, and sharp back pain from maneuvering our workplace into the bed.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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WJR Business Beat: Local Company AdAdapted Strikes Major Partnership For Growth (Episode 298)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about a major collaboration between Ann Arbor startup AdAdapted and Buzzfeed that impacts how consumers find recipes and shop. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about AdAdapted’s partnership: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Employers are consumer edtech’s next beta test

TechCrunch

Remote work may have changed the way we spend our days, but there’s quite a sneaky disruptor among us: burnout. As the pandemic drags on, employees are either soul-searching for a bigger purpose or simply exhausted by the uncertainty and stale culture of their current jobs. It’s not a small subset of the working population, either: Microsoft estimates that 41% of people are likely to consider leaving their employer within the next year, and 46% are planning to make a major pivot or career transi

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Mum Builds a £50 Million Brand Because Her Kids Needed a Better Education

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How the founder of Cambridge Satchel Co. started with £600 and made it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Founders speak on impact of e3 class on their ventures

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Words like ‘focus,’ ‘structure,’ ‘strategy’ and ‘invaluable’ are heard over and over again as we talk with the founders who participate in our popular e3 – evaluate, equip, empower — workshop for entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs bring their ideas and new concepts to e3 with a mission to determine the best market and test customer acceptance of their venture.

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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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Impact Investor Profile Series: Naava Mashiah, CEO, ME LINKS

The Seraf Compass

This profile is the first in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Naava Mashiah is a Geneva Switzerland based wealth manager and business development consultant focused on impact investments in the Middle East.

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Growth marketing is not a magic trick, says Ellen Jantsch of Tuff

TechCrunch

If you are looking for a growth marketing playbook, stop reading now, because you won’t get one from Tuff. The agency’s founder Ellen Jantsch makes it clear: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to growth. The team at Tuff knows their stuff — and it’s precisely why they are not selling “magic” or any kind of “mysterious secret sauce.” Instead, they are betting on transparency and experimentation, and it seems to be working well: The agency wa

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Cybersecurity: Why It’s Important for Small Businesses

StartupNation

Technological advances today have made individuals and businesses more interconnected than ever. But the same networks that keep people connected also abound with cyber threats. Cybersecurity is a must because companies now rely on these networks to process financial transactions, sell products, and market their services online. The choices and costs of these cybersecurity solutions vary.

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What $970,000,000 Taught Twitch Founder Justin Kan About Friendship

Entrepreneur's Handbook

3 lessons from a man whose life changed overnight Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!