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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

TechCrunch

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. Here the report found that 42.72% of U.K.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

– Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. Fast Sense H2 – Nano-sized quantitative, mixed-gas sensor and analyzer for industrial, environmental and security applications.

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Securing Multi-Cloud Environments: Overcoming Challenges and Ensuring Data Protection

AsiaTechDaily

But this move to a multi-cloud strategy also creates serious security difficulties. Organizations want a centralized architecture that supports different cloud platforms and enables them to implement security and access controls uniformly in order to overcome this difficulty.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education. Entrepreneurship education needs hard skills training. Instead, they're focused on "strategy", which lots of makers already have a good starting sense of. Open your doors. Kick the students out.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

The strategy of venture capital is not to capitalize on the continuity of trends already existing on the market or to focus on the hype of the moment, but rather the exercise of imagining the demands of tomorrow, intercepting products and services capable of reinventing entire sectors with a view to a future industrial policy.

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Lesson #338: The 7 Steps to Managing Your Advertising Agency

Red Rocket

Is it high income, well-educated people, or more mass market? For example, is your customer more of a “fitness fanatic” or an “arts and crafter”, to enable media targeting at that “interest” level. Set the Media Mix Mastering your marketing funnel and media mix is a more in-depth conversation that I have written about in the past.

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