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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

Both Sides of the Table

Personally I believe that to fund more people of color you need to put check-writing authority in their hands the same way that if you want to see more women funded you need more women GPs. We have a responsibility to help propel them to the top ranks of our biggest firms to make our check writers more representative of our society overall.

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UX Workshops by Celebrated Author & Usability Expert, Eric Reiss

Tech Zulu Event

He has lectured on design principles at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, former Professor of Usability and Design at the IE Business School in Madrid, and serves on the advisory boards of several universities and institutes in both Europe and the United States. October 13: Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. I personally find music more distracting than helpful. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Doppels Is the Birthday Matching App You’re Going to Love

Tech.Co

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. The Star-Match feature is designed to be a friendly connection builder. The Star-Match. Giving Back.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed. Mostly, I love writing.

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The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films

TechCrunch LA

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. Let AI write the script. .” Rct studio wants to build the Westworld experience in virtual worlds.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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