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Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous

TechCrunch

After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA. For those with a lot of grass and far less time, there are still a number of robotic mowers out there, on both the commercial and consumer side of the aisle. Electric Sheep Robotics’s (yeah, yeah, Philip K. Dick, et al.) has some form of lawn. $20

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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How Off-the-Shelf Tech Can Make Factories More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory systems can require. This is short-sighted. Companies can see big financial benefits by utilizing existing data and simpler technologies to reduce waste, labor costs, overhead, and utility expenses.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

TechCrunch

If you’re the founder of an e-commerce startup, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using a platform like Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce, and one of the dozens of analytics extensions like RetentionX, Sensai metrics or ProfitWell that provide off-the-shelf reporting. Don’t rely on them after you’ve outgrown them.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

TechCrunch

The product works with both off-the-shelf models and customer-built models. Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. But what about legacy players in the financial industry?