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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Israeli startups have gained international recognition as cutting-edge enterprises with game-changing potential. This company has received multiple awards, including Cyber Security Excellence Awards Winner for 2019, Cyber Defense Global Awards 2019 Winner, and SC 2019 Awards Finalist. Intezer.com.

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5 Tips to Gain From People Who Don’t Think Like You

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a business advisor, that’s probably the biggest hurdle to success encountered by every new business owner. I often recommend to technical entrepreneurs (logical) that they team with a cofounder who has a business perspective (emotional customer appeal). One of these without the other is a recipe for disaster.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

This doesn’t require any great technical acumen, just vigilant attention to values and rights. As a current example, Tessa Lau , a computer scientist and cofounder of robotics company Savioke, says she frequently sees designs that neglect to take into account the perspectives of women and other minority groups.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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SXSW Startups: New Age Meats

Austin Startup

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.

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It’s the Company you keep

Eric Friedman

After about a year of consulting + executive coaching work as COO-As-A-Service for startups, I am happy to announce I’ll be joining the folks at www.Company.co. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Afterword (by Bob Campbell)

Austin Startup

19, 2019: I first met Brett Hurt over 25 years ago. Over that period, Brett was an entrepreneur immersed in the startup world. I, in turn, was focused on large clients and projects as an intraentrepreneur and rather oblivious to the startup world. Back to Contents Written by Bob Campbell on Sept. I was one of his interviewers.