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How This Entrepreneur Built a Million-Dollar Business by Focusing on These 3 Strategies 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- July 14, 2019
Start by becoming emotional about your customers but rational with your numbers.
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Reports: Facebook settles with FTC for record $5 billion 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- July 13, 2019
Facebook has agreed to pay a record $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission after a yearlong investigation into the company’s privacy practices, according to multiple reports Friday. Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times reported that the FTC this week voted to approve the settlement, which…
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Startups Weekly: Zoom, Superhuman and small reactions to big scandals 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- July 13, 2019
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I noted the big uptick in VC spending in 2019. Before that, I struggled to understand WeWork’s growth trajectory. Remember, you…
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3 Business Lessons I Learned, Believe It or Not, From Watching the 'Jonas Brothers' Documentary 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- July 13, 2019
The band is back together, but only after some honest, hard conversation and a whole lot of vulnerability.
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Negative? How a Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention 0
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- July 13, 2019
Decades ago, a young naval engineer on a British nuclear submarine started taking an interest in the electric batteries helping to run his vessel. Silently running under the frozen polar ice cap during the Cold War, little did this submariner know that, in the 21st century, batteries would become one of the biggest single sectors…
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Who’s listening to Google Assistant? You might be surprised 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- July 12, 2019
By Rachel Lerman | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home. The company acknowledged that humans can access those recordings after some of its Dutch language audio…
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