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Rustam Gilfanov: “The Business Plan Of A Startup Is A Test Of The Idea’s Survival Potential”

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Make sure there will be a demand for your product. Collect and analyze information about the size of the niche you can occupy. In the post-coronavirus period, the demand for technologies that help businesses compensate for losses will only increase. When compiling a business plan, focus on specific market segments.

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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

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by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. As Southeast Asia drives ahead with digitisation, its eagerness and receptiveness to emerging technologies have encouraged the rising adoption of digital finance and the growing demand for re-skilling the workforce in digital technologies such as blockchain. .

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

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Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. He has spent a lot of time thinking about what users really want to do to solve information overload problems. The reality is, a lot of the stuff being built now isn’t rocket science.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

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Why should users sift through ads and 10 blue links for the information they’re looking for if it can just be generated with LLMs and tailored to their specific query/prompt? It felt like magic to just type a question in natural language and have the answer formatted, generated, and iterated, on the spot.

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How Smart Assistants Went From Pocket Devices To Managing Offices

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by Roland Polzin , MBA and Co-founder of Wing AI. Personal assistants are often hired to prepare decisions and information for managers and take care of miscellaneous tasks for busy executives and CEOs — who all earn higher incomes. Computers are not yet actually smart. When we ask our Alexa device “What’s the weather like?”,

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. CrunchBase Information. Information provided by CrunchBase. CrunchBase Information.

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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

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Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. I was reminded of this from one of my founders of non-white descent. Three of the founding teams are married couples.