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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users.

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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

Tech.Co

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. Invest in communication skills and use all platforms.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

socalTECH

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders. Liquidity and transfer of wealth.

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Why Successful Startups Often Have A Pair Of Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

Master of multi-platform communication and marketing. Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. Certainly interfacing to the outside world may not be an inventor forte.

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5 Strategies For Business Growth Many People Forget

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Introduce disruptive technologies to this domain.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

He built & IPOd Demand Media. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.