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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. In other micromobility news … Micromobility data platform Populus raised some skrillz — $3.1

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6 New Organizational Lessons From Amazon and Alibaba

Startup Professionals Musings

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/04/2019. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform.

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