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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. CTO President Obama Megan Smith is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. Carolyn was recognized by Inc. As the third U.S.

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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.