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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

TechCrunch

Besides incumbents like Adobe, there are startups such as Reduct.Video , which uses AI, natural language processing and other tech to automatically create editable transcripts. The strategy appears to be working for Descript so far, which counted NPR, VICE, The Washington Post and The New York Times among its customers as of 2021.

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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Based on our previous experience from the financial crisis in 2007–2009, an economic slowdown pushes companies to rethink their digital strategy which is often connected with rebuilding their website. region- or product-specific) content.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. Is that a good strategy?

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Every time OpenAI cuts a check for training data, an unlaunched competitive startup dies. Without a ‘safe harbor,’ AI will be ruled by incumbents.

Hunter Walk

Companies like the New York Times are willing to litigate this issue (at least as a negotiation strategy). For example, model owners must: Transparency : for a given publicly available URL or submitted piece of media, to query whether the top level domain is included in the training set of the model.