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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Due to their unique oversight, governments have a surplus of data at their fingertips. social media giants, product review sites, and travel companies) to be wary of sharing large customer datasets. Businesses must do diligence to guarantee government agencies and private-sector agencies take that responsibility seriously.

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media buyers, to software and services providers and wireless companies.

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Getting Small Business Loans Right – The Future Needs To Resemble The Past

YoungUpstarts

For example, lenders can learn about a small business’ customers’ satisfaction, and even the business owner’s character (one of the five C’s of credit) with data from the e-commerce platforms they use, their social media interactions with customers, and even the weight, frequency and destination of products they ship.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started North Atlanta Hair Restoration out of my desire to be a patient-oriented physician dedicated to the human condition. In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4- Photo Credit: Dr. Dan Danyo.

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Don’t Buy the Hype

A Crowded Space

Once a startup starts receiving attention, it can snowball and you get constant press coverage across Techcrunch, Re/code, etc. Hyped companies draw eyeballs, and media businesses are about getting lots of eyeballs. Sometimes they are just building software for unsexy industries like the $380 billion global shipping industry.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

I mean, our people invented so much and accomplished so much throughout American history from post-slavery to modern times but somehow, we black people cannot write lines of code, really? Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge. of all software utility patents to inert status.

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Innovative Entrepreneur Behind Pioneering Tech Platform Disrupting Hiring Process & Empowering Today’s Nurses

Hearpreneur

There was only one major nurse agency business in the Atlanta market, and I knew there was room for improvement. I started making use of my relationships in the healthcare and media industries to bring SnapNurse to life. I started SnapNurse as an online nurse agency connecting hospitals to nurses through an online platform.