Venture Well
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
When leaders at UCI BAI discovered VentureWell’s Advancing Equity report, they used it as a blueprint to develop a DEI framework for their organization. The post turning the tide: how Beall Applied Innovation champions educational equity appeared first on VentureWell.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Early in the pandemic, we were all deluged with stories of tech workers, companies, and founders leaving Silicon Valley for Miami and Austin. And that was true. But from my personal experience, they also left for many other places too, including Los Angeles and New York City. I met with a founder last week who has left the bay area for good and now splits his time between homes in LA and NYC.
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The Seraf Compass
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
This profile is the first in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Naava Mashiah is a Geneva Switzerland based wealth manager and business development consultant focused on impact investments in the Middle East.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky , an internationally-renowned thought leader in future-proofing and cognitive bias risk management and an EO 360° podcast guest. We asked Dr. Tsipursky to explain how normalcy bias and other cognitive biases impact entrepreneurs in determining return-to-office scenarios. Here’s what he shared: As the efficiency rate of vaccines against the Delta variant slides to 39% , company leaders who implement a normal office return are denying reality.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. According to the Economist , one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” We were already expecting a transition to digital transformation thanks to technological advancement, dubbed the “fourth industrial revolution.
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NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Our world is changing, and fast. With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies.
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
By Jenn Fulmer, a content writer for TechnologyAdvice , IT Business Edge, and Baseline. There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. If employees constantly worry about keeping their green light on, they can’t focus on their actual work. Many managers are worried about the productivity of their remote workers and want a good way to measure it.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
One lesson the COVID pandemic has taught us is that employees do not need to work in the same location as their employer to be productive. This has since opened up a much larger pool of candidates for companies as they no longer need to focus on recruiting in areas near an office location. This may be a new way of doing things for many employers, but there are a lot of benefits to recruiting remote employees.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Brett Lovelady. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP.
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Y Combinator
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Today, Amplitude, which was part of YC’s W12 batch, is going public. Their story of grit, determination, and creativity, is an epic one. Spenser and Curtis first applied to YC in 2011, but their idea, a new version of Mechanical Turk, did not impress YC’s reviewers at the time, and although they were clearly brilliant hackers, that first application was rejected.
Smart Hustle Magazine
OCTOBER 1, 2021
By Chris Mut, CEO of nerdytec UG, an innovative lap desk producer. Eco-friendly, improving productivity, and reducing stress levels… Are we talking about holidays? Not quite. In fact, these are all benefits of the home office —if done the right way. Unfortunately, we often associate the home office with children interrupting video calls, late-night working hours, and sharp back pain from maneuvering our workplace into the bed.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Today, Height.app launched out of private beta, and we’re thrilled to announce Redpoint has partnered with the Height team, especially Michael & Kat, who hail from Stripe and Facebook. We were captivated by Height when we met the team several years ago. In particular, the company aspired to a vision of enabling cross-functional teams to work better together, particularly as organizations grow.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Vedantu, which last month refuted rumors of it considering a sale to Byju’s , said on Wednesday it has raised $100 million in its Series E financing round that valued it at $1 billion, up from about $275 million early last year.
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StartupNation
OCTOBER 1, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about a major collaboration between Ann Arbor startup AdAdapted and Buzzfeed that impacts how consumers find recipes and shop. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about AdAdapted’s partnership: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
By Megan Wintersteen, Vice President of Marketing at Zenreach. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on small businesses (SMBs) throughout 2020. Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. Consumer foot traffic to restaurants and retailers has increased more than 52% since January. Vaccination rates are also climbing.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has built technology to make that process move faster and more efficiently is announcing a round of funding to address those enterprises’ evolving needs.
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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.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
By now, you’ve mastered the importance of cracking your life’s purpose code and finding your purpose. Now, it’s time to discuss monetizing your true purpose. There are five primary reasons people do not achieve their dreams: They never begin. They quit too soon. They make poor decisions, derailing their ambitions. They worry about what others think.
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
By Saloua Ibaline, business strategist, author and digital marketing coach. When I first arrived in New York City in 2005, I was 21 years old. My eyes were full of sparks and my head was full of dreams. I was dedicated to success. Nothing could’ve stopped me from achieving my vision of the American dream. In my mind, the United States was the promised land, where I would be able to achieve anything while becoming rich.
The Startup Blog Market Brief
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Cognitive ToyBox conducted an experiment to find out which forms of advertising via social media are most effective in reaching educators. The post 3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media appeared first on Market Brief.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Conventional electronic media like flash drives and hard drives require energy consumption to process a vast amount of high-density data and information overload and are vulnerable to security issues due to the limited space for storage. There is also an expensive cost issue when it comes to transmitting the stored data. To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing
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StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Technological advances today have made individuals and businesses more interconnected than ever. But the same networks that keep people connected also abound with cyber threats. Cybersecurity is a must because companies now rely on these networks to process financial transactions, sell products, and market their services online. The choices and costs of these cybersecurity solutions vary.
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
By Zev Asch, Marketing & Business Growth Consultant. Business owners need not be their company’s marketing experts. You trust your CPA to guide you on finances and your lawyer to advise on legal matters – marketing should not be an exception. Your role as a business owner is to create a vision, set goals and manage the business by hiring the best talent you can find for each part of the business (HR, accounting, sales, customer service, operations, etc.).
Innovation 2 Enterprise
OCTOBER 1, 2021
We’re still the same i2E that has served Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community for the past 22 years, providing business advice to nearly 800 startups and investing $79 million in 187 companies. We’ve celebrated 11 major exits and one “unicorn” among our portfolio companies over more than two decades of service to Oklahoma. Now, we offer even more to Oklahoma’s founders to keep up with the growing demand for our services through our subsidiary, i2E Management Company, Inc.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Remote work may have changed the way we spend our days, but there’s quite a sneaky disruptor among us: burnout. As the pandemic drags on, employees are either soul-searching for a bigger purpose or simply exhausted by the uncertainty and stale culture of their current jobs. It’s not a small subset of the working population, either: Microsoft estimates that 41% of people are likely to consider leaving their employer within the next year, and 46% are planning to make a major pivot or career transi
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