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Hubilo raises $4.5 million, led by Lightspeed, to focus on virtual events

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Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events. Spotify is developing a ‘virtual events’ feature.

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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

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GenAI-enabled virtual assistants, such as ChatGPT, have attracted much attention, but a huge number of GenAI applications and use cases go even further.” Move beyond productivity and consider ‘sidekick’ like use cases to fully deliver the promise of AI. According to Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Z?m CEO Ritu Narayan explains why equity and accessibility works for mobility services

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“We had the minimum viable product, which we expanded upon, built the entire platform, and we kept on going to better places with our solutions.” ” Bearing in mind that her mother in India had set aside a career to raise Narayan and her three siblings, she founded Z?

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Skidattl’s augmented reality beacons are ‘like a Bat-Signal for fun’

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It’s a story we’ve heard before from AR companies, particularly as they pit themselves against the potentially isolating effects of virtual reality. Skidattl wants to use augmented reality to get people to engage with the real world. ” (It goes without saying, but TechCrunch ad sales are totally separate from editorial.).

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Build a versatile startup team to make pivots easier

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With one of my recent companies, we were building a virtual events platform. Give up on the generalist virtual events platform and build a specialist, niche product that can give you a foothold in the market. Without fail, the strongest startup teams are the ones that are versatile, hungry and knowledgeable.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement charges SBF with fraud as he awaits extradition after Bahamas arrest

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“AI can scale much faster than other technologies, so what works at the beta or minimum viable product stage may not work when an AI product scales to millions of users,” says Ryan E. Long, principal attorney of Long & Associates. ” 3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups.

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Australian growth marketing agency Ammo helps startups calibrate their efforts

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day. This leads to a minimum viable brand identity that’s built to grow and created with the expectation that it will change as your startup does. What’s the process you follow to help startups develop their minimum viable brand?

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