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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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Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. To be clear, designers still use Canva to lay out components they’ve designed in other products, such as Figma and Sketch, and Canva actually plays nicely with a variety of design software products.

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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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Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

TechCrunch

Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3 The idea for the app first came up in 2013, Miller said, when he and Gibson were students at Ohio University in Columbus.

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