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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Education Multimodal ability – apps that allow users to “input” questions, topics, or ideas in all forms (audio, image, text, and even video) and get a response in the media type that helps them learn best. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030.

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. Late last year, Marriott International disclosed a data breach involving its guest reservation database that could affect as many as 500 million guests., Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

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Security And Privacy Are Entrepreneur Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. Last year, the Target retail chain account database was hacked, with personal data of up to 70 million customers stolen, and this black eye won’t soon go away. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. A while back, the Target retail chain account database was hacked, with personal data of up to 70 million customers stolen, and this black eye won’t soon go away. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

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4 Ways Technology Can Help Streamline Business Operations

Women Entrepreneurs Can

One way in which businesses can make use of integrated software solutions for easy data management is by leveraging audio to text transcription. You can do everything right from improving your business’ strategic coherence, increasing its operational efficiency and enhancing your data security with an audio to text transcription software.

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

It’s the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool we use on our biz dev/sales team and it helps us be more efficient with tracking prospects and partners. ” -Caroline Cummings, VP of Sales and Business Development. Square : It’s been around for a couple of years and it’s only getting better. For Security.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. There are literally over a billion rows in the database and no one had touched it since 2008. So I scrambled.