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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

CIO

If you have modest AI ambitions, in an industry that isn’t being remastered by AI yet, you can afford to go at a more measured pace. For those organizations with bigger AI ambitions, or in an industry that’s being reinvented by AI, the pace will be faster. This is an AI-steady pace. This is an AI-accelerated pace.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product. In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.”

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Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America

TechCrunch

We’ve reported on some of those wholesale marketplaces recently, including ZAX , which connects sellers to buyers in Brazil, Morado for Colombia’s beauty industry, Novi , for sustainable goods, JABU in Africa and GudangADA , doing something similar in Indonesia. Meanwhile, Miferia is still in its early stages.

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3 views: What does ‘Line Go Up’ tell us about the state of the NFT art market?

TechCrunch

I asked John and Alex to share their thoughts on Olson’s video as a point of departure for discussing the state of the crypto industry in general. Here’s where we ended up: Walter Thompson: NFTs are scarcely minimum viable products. Walter Thompson: NFTs are scarcely minimum viable products.

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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

TechCrunch

If adopted by the semiconductor, digital media and IoT industries, it can significantly improve the way we consume, learn and interact with our devices. We are using the SBIR/STTR funds to convert our technology into a minimum viable product, an essential step for us to reach a broader customer base.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

TechCrunch

Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility. Dear Sophie: Any advice on visa issues for new hires? Image Credits: Flashpop (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Is that weed you’re smoking green enough?

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Scaling Startups: The Ultimate Guide For Founders

Luis Goncalves

Truly scalable business ideas share several key characteristics: Minimal marginal costs for serving additional customers Processes easily automated or standardized Potential for rapid expansion across markets Strategic technology use facilitating growth Top Industries for Scalable Business Ideas 1.