VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Mention that you do “Consumer tech” as a startup founder and you’d be limiting your funding options to one third of the venture capital funds (in Israel that figure is probably closer to 10%). Until now, consumer tech was perceived as a risky binary investment. B2C founders are surely no strangers to the adage ‘Consumer is hard’ – it’s not just the scarcity of funding that is challenging: consumer taste is fickle and competition includes most of the tech

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up. James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 16, 2025

The post Whats next on the frontiers of crypto, AI, and blockchain appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2025

In the current business environment where employee health and performance determine success pre-employment drug testing emerges as a key protective measure. The need for this screening procedure continues to grow more vital with time as we enter 2025. Businesses focus more heavily on pre-employment drug testing as the year advances. We will examine the key reasons behind the need to test employees for drugs and explain how this affects a workplace positively.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2025

The ultimate privacy invasion is near A day doesnt go past when what we are saying is not quite what we are thinking. Especially when talking to your boss, your kids, even your partner. Now, imagine a world where your actual thoughts could be directly translated into words by machines – for others to read. That world has arrived. Meta’s recent advancements in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology are steering us toward this reality.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2025

Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated than ever in today’s digital world. Companies are learning a lot with computers by placing sensitive data, communicating with customers, and carrying out daily operations. With the proper cybersecurity in place, companies can be the target of malware, ransomware, phishing, and other threats that can put their entire business in jeopardy.

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