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…
Founder & CEO of MVPR - Automated PR for startups. PR is an expensive outlay that has long been presented to startup founders as both an indispensable function and an opaque process, based on complex media relationships—usually exclusively held by PR agencies. In parallel, I find that PR agencies have…
Cheryl Lubbert, Chief Executive Officer, Reverba. When faced with online customer service “agents” who don’t have real answers or solutions for specific problems, email responses that don’t sound quite human and videos that could be deceptive altered deepfakes, consumers increasingly have questions about what is real. In a world of…
The Blank Street founders talk cold brew, the surprising reason they’re not opening in Los Angeles, and—yes—the trolls. This is a story about coffee. It’s also about V.C. funding. But it starts with coffee, two young immigrants and a single coffee cart in Williamsburg. That’s the origin story behind Blank…
From rebuilding audience trust to reimagining the way journalists cover the world, Cristi Hegranes is optimistic that the future of journalism is bright. Here, I speak with Hegranes about her new book, Byline and her vision for international journalism. Michael Zakaras: Over the last 17 years, Global Press has created…
Connie Chen, MD, leads product, clinical operations, and research as the COO at Lyra Health, a leader in global workforce mental health. At my primary care clinic, I had a patient come in complaining of debilitating stomach pain. I saw the young woman monthly for about a year, in 15-minute…
Scott Hoots is the CEO of QC Kinetix, a leader in the regenerative medicine industry. Seems every time we turn around, we’re being bombarded with the latest technology designed to streamline our lives. The inherent challenge we face is the learning curve as we navigate best practices utilizing these advancements.…
For over 500 years, estate planning has been an antiquated, costly, and offline industry. As such, research has shown that because such services have mainly been available to the wealthy, the industry has contributed to wealth inequality by providing the means for the rich to shield assets from taxation. But…
Now with over 180 million users and a fully-fledged premium offering, ChatGPT is becoming a key component in the week of an entrepreneur. Used well, the platform can write like you, spark game-changing business ideas, transform your personal brand and help you make tough business decisions. But that’s only if…
Millions of organisations worldwide outsource the running of their IT operations to a specialist company – a managed service provider (MSP) that handles all the challenges of keeping systems up-and-running and performing well. But to deliver that service, MSPs need a whole host of different software tools. That’s the preserve…
Starting a business is hard enough, but building it up to be successful is an even greater challenge. Many business owners find themselves in an awkward position after getting off the ground, not knowing how to take their operation to the next level. Getting stuck in the startup phase is…
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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