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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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Find out who the Diligent Modern Governance 100 Award winners are

Board Effect

We are so pleased to announce the Diligent Modern Governance 100 (MG100) Award winners for this year. The MG100 Awards, as they’re commonly known, celebrate the exceptional contributions of governance, risk, audit, compliance and ESG professionals around the world. Why do we give MG100 Awards?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. For one thing, I would still be working heavily in the blockchain and digital asset industry!

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. For one thing, I would still be working heavily in the blockchain and digital asset industry!

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.