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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of November: xAI And Anthropic Raise Billions Again

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That deal included Anthropic naming Amazon Web Services its primary cloud provider, as well as using AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. The Austin, Texas-based startup was founded in 2007 in Austria. The immediate investment was $1.25 billion, with the remaining $2.75 billion in total.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

I would argue even in the 2007 timeframe when we started our firm, we specifically focused on things we think Boston excels at.I But if you’re building a startup, especially something that sells to enterprise, those are perfect early adopters and proofs of concept. We’re an enterprise, deep tech, somewhat risk-averse town.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Put simply, I believe that leadership absent vision is a train-wreck waiting to happen. Many a good enterprise has been blown to pieces by a CEO with either no vision or the wrong vision. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that you simply cannot decouple the two without causing an organizational implosion.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Is the input being provided for the benefit of the source or the benefit of the enterprise? The best leadership training I ever received came from my time and experience in the military. Bias : Are there any hidden and/or competing agendas that are coloring the input being received? I agree with all your assertions and conclusions.

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Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft

TechCrunch

In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. Consider an algorithm trained to spot “suspicious” activity from a shopper.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

One would hope that the employees would understand and put the needs of the enterprise ahead of their expectation that this year’s bonus should eclipse that of the previous year, but would they? How do the employees feel about this?

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.