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NZ Entrepreneur

Starboard’s maritime domain awareness software is used globally to monitor national waters and tackle illegal fishing, trans-national crime, prevent biosecurity outbreaks and protect at-sea assets. Recently, NZ Defence awarded Starboard a contract to improve NZ’s maritime awareness with immediate use across multiple government agencies.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

The next part of the margin mix online video companies must get control of is talent margins. In a network you can have a mix of content from some “celebrity” content to attract audience to shows that you product customer for the network to make it unique. Yet many of the startups I see are very US centric.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated.

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Q&A with EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year: Cameron Madill

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Each year since 2013, EO recognizes one outstanding member who embodies the heart and soul of volunteerism, and who paves the way for others to follow, through its EO Global Citizen of the Year Award. We caught up with Cameron to learn more about his work as a social entrepreneur. What work led to your Global Citizen of the Year Award?

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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

TechCrunch

Zeekit was founded in 2013 by CEO Yael Vizel, VP of Research and Development Nir Appleboim and CTO Alon Kristal, with the premise that if online shoppers could see how clothing would look on their own bodies, the technology could reduce the rate of returns due to non-fitting, non-flattering items. Image Credits: Walmart.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced. Seventy-five percent said the time they spend on specific tasks is time wasted, suggesting it could be put to more strategic use. ” Tracking DORA metrics with Sleuth.

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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

TechCrunch

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline. .”

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