Sat.May 04, 2024 - Fri.May 10, 2024

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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing.

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Ben Franklin Announces Spring 2024 TechCelerator Finalists!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

State College, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (CNP) is pleased to announce the selection of ten outstanding entrepreneurial teams to participate in the Spring 2024 TechCelerator Business Bootcamp. Following a rigorous application process, these finalists have been chosen for their innovative ideas and potential to make significant impacts in their respective industries.

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Brainfish Raises $3.85M to Accelerate Global Expansion of AI-powered Customer Support

AsiaTechDaily

Sydney-based startup Brainfish, specializing in AI-driven customer support solutions for online businesses, has successfully secured AUD 3.85 million (USD 2.5 million) in its second funding round.

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What should VCs do with zombie companies?

David Teten VC

Inevitably, some of a VC’s portfolio companies will become “zombies”: not dead, but not growing. They have some technology and revenues, but morale is low. The CEO is hinting he’d like to get into VC or otherwise find a soft landing. Finding a buyer is difficult, because the company is not exciting to anyone, including even the founders. So what do you do?

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention

Andreessen Horowitz

For consumer products, the rubber hits the road at retention. It’s the lifeblood of an app and the hardest metric to move, as I learned viscerally during my time running the growth team at Snap. To attract repeat users, companies can’t just fill a product with the latest and greatest tech — they must intentionally craft each product feature to ensure their users come back again and again and again.

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GCUC Podcast Recap: Christine Wyckoff

GCUC

GCUC Podcast Recap: Christine Wyckoff In this episode of the GCUC podcast, Liz Elam and Christine Wyckoff, Director Enterprise Sales & Partnerships at Cushman & Wakefield dive into how.

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Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF

A Smart Bear: Longform

A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.

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Investing in Wiz

Andreessen Horowitz

As more workloads and data move to the cloud and generative AI takes over the enterprise , cybersecurity is more critical today than ever. And that’s because with every new paradigm shift—from the internet to cloud computing—the sheer magnitude of digital threats has exploded and threat vectors have become increasingly sophisticated. Some of the greatest software platforms in history have risen to the occasion in their respective markets to protect the enterprise against these evolving threats.

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The Customer Is Always Right: Or Are They?

The Groove Blog

If you cringe when you hear the phrase ‘the customer is always right’, you’re not alone. It’s a pillar of classic customer support philosophy, and there’s certainly a kernel of truth to it. At the same time, you’ll encounter plenty of customers who make you question this aphorism. Whether they’re aggressive, unreasonable, or have unrealistic […] The post The Customer Is Always Right: Or Are They?

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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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“ADI is the future” —Mindverse’s Kisson Lin Shares Insights on AI Personalization

AsiaTechDaily

Recently, Mindverse, an AI startup based in Singapore, successfully secured $5 million in seed funding from Square Peg, a venture capital firm. The capital infusion comes at a crucial stage for the company as it plans to advance its large AI personalization model when the current market is driven by one-size-fits-all GenAI applications.

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Meet the PLACE Builders Fellows

Forward Cities

Developed in partnership with EcoMap, PLACE (Pava LaPere Award for Cultivating Ecosystems) Builders as an intensive, three-month fellowship program empowering change-makers to catalyze more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems. Meet the fellows!

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Securing the Black Box: OpenAI, Anthropic, and GDM Discuss

Andreessen Horowitz

Human nature fears the unknown, and with the rapid progress of AI, concerns naturally arise. Uncanny robocalls, data breaches, and misinformation floods are among the worries. But what about security in the era of large language models? In this episode, we hear from security leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Matt Knight, Head of Security at OpenAI, Jason Clinton, CISO at Anthropic, and Vijay Bolina, CISO at Google DeepMind, are joined by Joel de la Garza, operating partner at a1

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[Stellar Cyber in BusinessWire] Stellar Cyber to Unveil Gen AI Capabilities for Award-Winning Open XDR Platform and More at RSA Conference

OurCrowd

The post [Stellar Cyber in BusinessWire] Stellar Cyber to Unveil Gen AI Capabilities for Award-Winning Open XDR Platform and More at RSA Conference appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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[Alpha Tau in Alpha Tau] Alpha Tau Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Abscopal Immune Effect in Pancreatic Murine Tumor Models at ESTRO 2024 Congress in Glasgow

OurCrowd

The post [Alpha Tau in Alpha Tau] Alpha Tau Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Abscopal Immune Effect in Pancreatic Murine Tumor Models at ESTRO 2024 Congress in Glasgow appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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[Stellar Cyber in BusinessWire] Stellar Cyber to be Named Triple Winner of Global InfoSec Awards During RSA Conference 2024

OurCrowd

The post [Stellar Cyber in BusinessWire] Stellar Cyber to be Named Triple Winner of Global InfoSec Awards During RSA Conference 2024 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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AI for the Physical World

Andreessen Horowitz

In the year and a half since ChatGPT launched a new AI wave, a crucial shortfall has dominated headlines: the insatiable demand for GPU computing resources. But when we talk to cloud leaders and data center operators to understand why there’s a compute crunch, it’s clear that access to power is often a bigger bottleneck than access to NVIDIA’s coveted GPUs themselves.

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