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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
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…
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Why A High Pricing Strategy Works For Your New Disruptive Product
Per Sjofors, a.k.a. "The Price Whisperer," founded Sjofors & Partners and is a thought leader on using price for higher growth and profits. It is clear that Venture Capital funding is drying up. According to Crunchbase, which tracks who gets funded and with how much, VC funding is down by…
The Three Marketing Musketeers
Robert J. Smith, BBA, MBA, MFA, Ph.D., is a business consultant and founder of Robert J. Smith Productions and Smith Profits. In the 1948 film The Three Musketeers, starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, Van Heflin and Vincent Price, the IMDb logline reads, “D'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans…
The Prescription For A Better Workforce
Scott Hoots is the CEO of QC Kinetix, a leader in the regenerative medicine industry. Business leaders are facing unprecedented challenges. Workers are uneasy. Workplace culture trends show concerns about employee stress levels, the call for hybrid flexibility, discontent demonstrated through quiet and loud quitting, uncertainty about the role of…
The Agile Marketing Strategy For Budget-Conscious CMOs
Andrea is CEO and cofounder of AgileSherpas, the leader in Agile transformations for marketers and other cross-functional teams. Whether it’s a worldwide economic downturn or just a slow revenue quarter, budget cuts will eventually come for every marketing leader. If you’re a senior marketer with less funding than you’d like,…
Tapping His Experience, Serial Tech Entrepreneur Launches VC Firm To Back Black Founders
Serial entrepreneur and M&A lawyer Luke Cooper started and sold two enterprise technology companies between 2006 and 2020. Cooper, who grew up in public housing in Bridgeport, Ct., the son of struggling single mother, he’s now tapping the full range of his experience through Latimer Ventures. That’s his Baltimore-based venture…
Leaders: Go Find Some Darkness
Lindy Tentinger is the President of VGM Forbin, a digital marketing and technology company. As a leader, it is probably not often, if ever, that you have someone tell you to "go find some darkness." Darkness, however, is exactly what I want to find as a leader, mother, wife, daughter,…
What Is The Role Of Open Source During Economic Downturns?
Ann Schlemmer, CEO at Percona. The International Monetary Fund has raised concerns about the global economy, citing extremely low levels of growth. According to the April 2023 World Economic Outlook report, baseline growth is projected to be 2.8% in 2023, followed by 3% in 2024. Advanced economies, in particular, are…
How To Identify The Future Of Talent In Private Equity: Redefining CEO
Private Equity Partner with a proven track record in executive search. Partner & COO at Renovata. Private Equity (PE) firms play an important role in identifying top-tier leadership talent for their portfolio companies. Traditionally, boards of directors and CEOs have relied on a narrow set of tried and true qualifications…
Credit-Challenged Small Businesses Have A New Source Of Capital
With pandemic government stimulus money and grant opportunities winding down, what's a woman-owned business to do? Know your financing options! A new option increases the likelihood of young businesses or businesses whose owners have low or no credit scores getting financing. The Equitable Access Fund relies on proven underwriting practices—paired…
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I was sending a copy of the latest issue of WIRED!). It’s the exact sort of question that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI…
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