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The Uber that Never Was

This is going to be BIG.

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

Dream It

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges.

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Harness the Power of Sleep

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This need not necessarily be in one go, so the opportunity for a nap ( NASA recommends 26 minutes! ), ideally before 3 pm can truly help us catch up on our rest during the day. I was a seven-espressos-a-day man when I quit in 2015. to 8 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period. Carefully manage (or quit) the caffeine!

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

TechCrunch

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement.

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EO24 Goes Live On 19 November!

Entrepreneurs' Organization

based and internationally recognized entrepreneurs — Alexandria, Virginia, USA (17 November 2015) – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week ( GEW ) by presenting EO24 , a virtual and interactive learning event to debut on Wednesday, 18 November, at 8 p.m. To learn more, visit www.eonetwork.org.