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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030.

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

As markets continue to change ever more rapidly through new technology and innovation, the global social, economic, and business environment will quickly evolve as well. If you don’t keep it top of mind today, then you are going to be left behind. Instill a sense of urgency in your business team.

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Open-source Something Often

Diego Basch

If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? Assuming you take pride in your work (if you don’t… well), open-source code is an incentive to: Make sure the code is not horrendously embarrassing. What have you open-sourced for me lately?

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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

could reach $66 billion by the end of 2018; globally, it is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020. Cybersecurity refers to a set of techniques used to protect the integrity of networks, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. According to Forbes , spending on cybersecurity in the U.S.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Mainframe Market

The Startup Magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global crisis of epic proportions—affecting businesses and economies around the world. The main challenge here is that most of the professionals that are proficient in mainframe applications and programming are getting on in years and probably about to exit the workforce soon.

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How Humans and Everyday Tech Can Outmatch AI

YoungUpstarts

It cannot respond to an unexpected change if it hasn’t been programmed to anticipate it. When assigned a task, a computer program may find solutions that are close by in the search process — known as the local optimum — but fail to find the best of all possible solutions. Algorithms get trapped in local optima. Wood, PLLC.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

And last but not least, we announced our investment in Celo , an open-sourced crypto-powered global payment platform. Shippo announced their UPS Ready Program and Fedex Compatible partnerships. Abstract released their SDK , so that you can start building your dream integrations.

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