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Do you need an advisory board?

Berkonomics

As you can guess, that would be an informal group with no legal responsibilities, but one able to be called upon to act as business, industry and scientific advisors to the company or CEO. Sometimes, celebrities will agree to sit on an advisory board as a gift to the CEO, providing a bit of glamour for the company at small expense.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower

If a user searches for "movies similar to Inception with a twist ending," the LLM can delve into its vast knowledge of movie themes, plots, and reviews, and generate a curated list of recommendations that might not be explicitly tagged in the platform's database. In other words, first, potential answer-containing documents are fetched.

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Everipedia Names Wikipedia Co-Founder To Exec Team

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Los Angeles-based Everipedia , an online, open source wiki network which is basing its system on Blockchain, said this week that it has named Dr. Larry Sanger as the company's new Chief Information Officer. According to Everipedia, Sanger coined the name "Wikipedia" and formulated much of the site's original policies.

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How would you like a great advisory board?

Berkonomics

As you can guess, that would be an informal group with no legal responsibilities, but one able to be called upon to act as business, industry and scientific advisors to you and the company. Sometimes, celebrities will agree to sit on an advisory board as a gift to the CEO, providing a bit of glamour for the company at small expense.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.” To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in.

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site. You provide payment when the mission is complete, and the payment is handled through the site.

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