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7 Reasons A Small Business Should Hire Advisors 

YoungUpstarts

The right advisor can have a greater impact on the success of your small business than any other hire you ever make. Here are seven ways that advisors can immediately help your small business achieve the next level of success: Assist With Strategies & Connections to Have Record Revenue & Profit in 2016.

CTO Hire 100
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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. Upon realising this, it definitely helped to speed up the hiring process and we now work with a multicultural team of 14. Looking for talent in the wrong places. Being too direct during meetings.

Asia 100
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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. came together in Kenya around March 2016, hired the first Pawame employees shortly thereafter, and we sold our first solar home system, to the mother of one of our early employees, in July 2016. The founders?—?Alex

Africa 48
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15 Female Entrepreneurs Share What Changes They Would Most Like to See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Sure, we’re great with communication, honing partnerships and sustaining positive business relationships thus warranting us the right to CMO titles but that doesn’t mean we can’t be just as effective (if not more) in a CEO, COO, CFO or even CTO role.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones. And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO.

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SXSW Startups: My SideKick

Austin Startup

In 2016, I told my now husband that all I wanted as a wedding gift was to quit my job and work on Every Two Minutes. So, in October of 2016, I resigned from my job at an ad agency and have been working on Every Two Minutes full time ever since. Get to know them and work with them over a period of time before fully committing.

Startup 55
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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Billion in VC funding.