Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
Michael Cardamone is CEO and Managing Partner at Forum Ventures. Almost 500 meetings. That is the figure cited by an acquaintance of mine when we were talking about the number of conversations it took for him to raise his first venture capital (VC) fund. The explosion of seed funds over…
Renae Gaudette, Chief Operating Officer at Winmark the Resale Company. If you’re someone who dreams of quitting their day job and striking out on your own, you’re not alone. "Roughly three in five Americans (61%) have had an idea for starting a business," according to a Harris Poll survey commissioned…
President & CEO at AD1 Global, a fully integrated hospitality, acquisition, development & management company headquartered in Florida. The hospitality industry has always been at the forefront of innovation, constantly seeking new ways to enhance guest experiences and improve operational efficiency. In recent years, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI)…
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill currently working its way through the UK Parliament could see Meta (as well as Alphabet) labeled as holding Strategic Market Status (SMS) and therefore asked to financially contribute to content creators to ensure fair competition in the digital market. The amount paid would…
Artificial intelligence can be an entrepreneur’s best friend or worst enemy. Channeled incorrectly, it can bring FOMO, anxiety, and fear of irrelevance. It can make business owners believe they’re not moving fast enough and their team fear they’ll lose their jobs. Used well, however, the benefits are huge. Do more…
Kirill Gurskiy is Managing Director of GEM Capital, a leading Cyprus-based investment firm with a focus on game studios. Investing in any particular industry, you should always be aware of what's going on within it. Currently, the gaming industry landscape is going through a bit of reshaping with the IDFA…
Yet the threat of a ban constantly looms over the app, in part because of those longstanding Chinese connections. Although the app is a separate one to the one available in China, called Douyin, it shares some features in addition to that tricky parent company. While TikTok has spent significant…
The US government should create a new body to regulate artificial intelligence—and restrict work on language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to companies granted licenses to do so. That’s the recommendation of a bipartisan duo of senators, Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Josh Hawley, who launched a legislative framework yesterday to…
Mina Hsiang returned to the United States Digital Service, the US government's rapid digital fix-it squad, on January 26, 2021, when the streets of Washington, DC, had hardly been cleared after Joe Biden’s inauguration. She was one of the group’s founding members but had spent the past few years working…
Just like any business, during its lifetime a franchise business will progress through a series of different stages. The speed and manner in which the franchise moves through these different chapters in the business journey will vary and will be dependent on a number of different factors. But most franchise…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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