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Zuckerberg’s bad week gets worse with live-streamed shooting 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- March 17, 2019
Molly Schuetz · Bloomberg Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has had a very bad week, even in the context of a very bad year. The week of bad news actually started March 8 with a proposal from U.S. senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to break up the company. Then there was the longest-ever…
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Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- March 17, 2019
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I’m fairly certain we can all agree that the environment for startups has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, specifically in two major ways: The…
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4 Lessons That Most Successful Entrepreneurs Had to Learn the Hard Way 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- March 17, 2019
To help mitigate the impact of those speed bumps, here are four lessons that most successful entrepreneurs have learned the hard way, but maybe you don’t have to.
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Igneous Secures $25M in Series C 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- March 16, 2019
SEATTLE, WA, Startup delivering the only Unstructured Data Management (UDM) as-a-Service solution, has raised $25M in Series C funding led by WestRiver Group
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Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- March 16, 2019
Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes…
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Stanford unveils new AI institute, built to create ‘a better future for all humanity’0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- March 16, 2019
Amid a worldwide race for supremacy in artificial intelligence, Stanford University on Monday will unveil a new institute dedicated to using AI to build the best-possible future. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is co-directed by Fei-Fei Li, a former chief scientist for AI at Google, now a Stanford computer science professor. “The scope…
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