Coming up with a new idea with huge potential is only half the battle. Equally important is finding one that fits you. I try to explain that even the most innovative idea will fail if it is not a good fit for you at this time, so the question I ask is “why you now?” rather than “why this...
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Startup founders focus on their product but often forget that building a business around it requires many stages. Unfortunately, these two are rarely closely coupled, and navigating all the stages of building a business is typically the more challenging task. But I’m not one to rain on your...
One of the characteristics that every good investor looks for in an aspiring entrepreneur is resilience, or the ability to learn from and bounce back after a failure. You don’t have to have previous startup problems to show resilience – everyone should have a story of tackling a tough challenge...
Facebook beats Q2 estimates with $18.69 billion in revenue and 2.7 billion monthly active users
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Facebook beat analysts' estimates in Q2 2020, raking in $18.69 billion in revenue and hitting 2.7 billion monthly active users across its platform.Read...
Waymo has inked a deal with Volvo Cars Group to develop fully electric self-driving passenger cars, the two companies announced.Read...
Amazon has purchased cameras from Chinese company Zhejiang Dahua Technology, a company blacklisted by the U.S. Department of Commerce.Read...
Stores and workplaces are equipping existing cameras with AI software that can track compliance with guidelines like social distancing and mask-wearing.Read...
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide and contains around 55,000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death. It provides a common language that allows health professionals to share health information...
Podcast: TakeTask develops home quarantine app for the Ministry of Digitisation in Poland to combat COVID-19
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Listen to Sebastian Starzynski, CEO of TakeTask, explains how his team has helped Poland and other nations with their Home Quarantine App to combat COVID-19. Social responsibility at its apex! About TakeTask TakeTask is a mobile application used to assign, execute and verify tasks on a large scale...
Too often, entrepreneurs–especially inexperienced ones–take the “luxury” approach to funding, incorporating every bell and whistle into their expansion plan by trying to accomplish all goals at one time. That’s nice, but it’s usually not reality and often forces businesses to be cash...
Attracting the right customers is the key to success in business, whether you have a startup or you’ve been in business for years. In my role as an adviser to entrepreneurs, I often see businesses make the mistake of trying to be too many things for too many people. For example, Xerox tried...
Listen in to hear how Sebastian Starzynski, CEO of TakeTask, has created a system to manage tasks when you have a geographically dispersed labour force or freelance partners working for you. You can communicate with them via the mobile application. Complex tasks can be preceded by in-app...
Earlier this year, LinkedIn released a list of the five most in-demand soft skills for 2020. They were determined by examining the skills listed on the profiles of the people on the network getting hired at the highest rates.The ranking...
When I meet with new startup founders, the one question I get asked about is ‘raising money’. This is smart of them as fundraising is an essential core competence of any startup. As much as I enjoy talking about funding, I rarely –almost never– heard from these entrepreneurs on ‘what...
These days, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, pitching their latest and greatest new idea, and looking for someone to give them money. Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Talk is...
In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “entrepreneur” and “inventor” are interchangeable. Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed...
Zapflow’s story started when CEO and Founder Mikko Pirinen ran the M&A and CVC departments of a telecommunications firm with more than 80 transactions under its belt. In his role, Pirinen and his team experienced first-hand the pain of managing large amounts of data using Excel, rather than...
Plenty has been written on venture capital (VC), private equity (PE) and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) as subsets of the financial industry. Despite the extensive coverage the concept of deal flow (sometimes written as dealflow or even deal-flow) remains vaguely formalised – partly due to lack of...
Nimest aims to bring the world closer and erase time differences. Using an app available in their cellphone, the traveller will be able to talk and interact with historical characters. As they walk through their destination, they’ll be invited to learn more about the destination! This will be...
Discussion on how Zajil works on the integration of tech and jewellery that is not utilitarian but focuses on the sentimental value of the human experience, using jewellery as a reservoir of the most important messages or moments of our lives.— This article was first published on...
SoapBox is a startup that’s located in the heart of the Toronto tech sector. They are on a mission to help good managers become great. Their app is designed to help managers have productive, organised and collaborative one-on-one and team meetings. Other interesting things you might find is that...
Aument is developing a solution for the increasing pressures on primary care healthcare resources across Europe which are negatively impacting patient outcomes. With the use of advanced analytics and intelligence amplification, we provide a venue for primary care physicians to transpose their...
We fund the founders creating the future of local and urban transportation. The micromobility revolution, motivated by a rapidly changing world, has started. Micromobility is unbundling the automobile, and liberating resources. These resources will yield countless market opportunities, and create...