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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. This happens because many CEOs are passionate, market-driven people who are constantly trying to launch new products, win contracts, get press, hire staff and woo VCs. Hire a great CFO.

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Q2 2015 DDoS Trends – The Fall Of Search Engine Impersonators

YoungUpstarts

According to Incapsula “threat landscape report” , search bot impersonation was detected in 60% of the DDoS attacks in 2014 but only in 1% of those in 2015! Google and Baidu impersonators bots – 2015 compared to 2014. However, the use of this practice has almost entirely disappeared, all at once. More recent data shows this clearly.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. You own the IP you create. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. But it might not.

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To NDA or not to NDA?

Growthink Blog

Are you hiring an employee? Perhaps you are hiring a company for custom work, or are talking to potential co-founders, angel investors, or venture capitalists. Visit Traklight and use “ID your IP” with Traklight’s compliments until February 28, 2014. Free “ID your IP” Code GROWT13 ($59 value).

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. 25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help.