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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Everyone has heard about the big potential for using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand your business, but many of the small businesses I mentor are still wary of embracing it, because they don’t understand how it works, and fear losing control and unintended consequences. Individual biases must be excluded.

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Techstars Los Angeles Launches 2019 Class

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Techstars Los Angeles , one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in Los Angeles, has announced its 2019 class. According to Techstars, ten companies were selected for the startup accelerator, which kicked off this week. The companies will have their Demo Day on October 15th.

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Startups Optimistic About Business Conditions, Despite Uncertainty, Says Report

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A new report issued today by Silicon Valley Bank, says that startups are generally optimistic about their business opportunities, and they plan to raise capital and expand their workforces this year, despite "economic and political" uncertainty across the globe. SVB posted its full report online.

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Boston A.I. Leaders Call for Focus on Diversity, Global Mindset in 2019

Xconomy

It was an eventful year for the artificial intelligence industry. software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019.

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Camino Financial Expands Exec Team

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Los Angeles-based fintech startup Camino Financial said today that it is expanding its management team, and has named Aram Gushchyan as Director of Growth and Roxane Herrera as Director of Corporate Development. Guschchyan previously was Director of Marketing and Analytics at Go.

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Reflections on 2019: Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital

socalTECH

What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? While it is starting to sound overblown (and by the number of pitches I receive, it certainly seems that way), but Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning is really stretching its wings.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s most noteworthy venture deals, fundraises, M&A transactions and trends. Let’s take a quick moment to catch up. Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door.

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