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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. If it has that beautiful mix, alongside growing and scaling opportunities, then I’m happy.

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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

Before lunch, we mixed founders with Chicago’s civic, academic, and financial leaders — including former Google exec, Ted Souder , J.P. Early adopters who use proprietary data to solve real problems are the ones who turn experimentation into edge. Key threads from the rooms: AI-native is a culture, not a birthdate.

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Maki’s Conversational AI Agents Transform Talent Acquisition, Series A Funded

American Entrepreneurship

With major global companies like BNP Paribas, PwC, Deloitte, FIFA, Abercrombie, and Capgemini in its fold, Maki is accelerating the use of its AI agents throughout companies’ human resources. As with so many other AI startups, AI agents are driving Maki’s model to transform HR, specifically talent recruitment and management.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up. For us, it was not a good use of money.

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Meet the Designer Helping AI Startups Go from Demo to Daily Use

Jason Malki

Josh Canale I had the pleasure of interviewing Josh Canale, the founder of Josh Canale Design  — a solo UX consultancy that helps early-stage AI startups turn complex tech into adoption-ready product experiences. He mixes strategy, research, and hands-on design to make AI feel intuitive, useful, and above all, trustworthy.

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The 10 best VoIP providers to move your business phone to the cloud in 2025

The Zapier Blog

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Instead of deploying yards of copper wires spooled out to attached office phones to make and receive calls, virtual calls are made using a broadband internet connection.

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Creative Entrepreneur Trinette Faint Brings [Real] Social Back

Jason Malki

Thank you so much for joining us! What motivated you to launch your startup? I’m excited that I get to intentionally bring together a great mix of people who complement each other and create a special experience. What are your future plans for your startup? Plus, to use my French!