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Last year was a tough period for African growth stage startups and 2024 presents mixed bag

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Last year presented a tough period for African tech startups. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the continent.

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A first look at nine new IndieBio NY companies that will present to VCs next month

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It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it was already running out of San Francisco.

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ByteDance’s video editor CapCut targets businesses with AI ad scripts and AI-generated presenters

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CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s the company’s second to hit $100 million in consumer spending after TikTok, is now expanding into business tools.

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The Davis-Bacon Act changes present a chance for startups to disrupt construction tech

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construction landscape looks much different this week compared to last Friday, following the amendments to the Davis-Bacon Act that went into effect earlier this week. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core.

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What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe

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However, edtech growth in the past 18 months has ramped up to such an extent that companies need to be presenting 3x+ growth in annual recurring revenue to even get noticed by their favored funds. One of the most common themes Brighteye sees in young companies is an emphasis on international expansion for growth.

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German startup Pitch switches CEO and lays off two-thirds of its workforce

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Pitch, the company behind a collaborative presentation software for businesses, is scaling back and bootstrapping, with CEO and co-founder Christian Reber stepping down and two-thirds of its employees losing their jobs. This translates roughly to 80 personnel, based on the 120 headcount figure Pitch has published on its about page.

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10 Rules for Managing PostgreSQL®

This whitepaper presents ten indispensable rules that will empower you to optimize your PostgreSQL installation and stay ahead of the evolving landscape. Its expanding range of use cases is witnessing exponential growth, allowing PostgreSQL to effectively target an ever-increasing number of applications while minimizing limitations.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Javier Ramirez will present: The typical steps for building a data lake. Is your data secure? In this session, we address common pitfalls of building data lakes and show how AWS can help you manage data and analytics more efficiently. A live demo of lake formation. Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

The presentation will be packed full of real-world examples of great inclusive design (covering household products and digital services), alongside a few more detailed case studies explaining how inclusive design can be embedded successfully in the design process. What ‘inclusive design’ really means.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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Quantifying the Value of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

is built on the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which enables manufacturers to collect, analyze, and present real-time data and analytics in easy-to-understand and highly customizable formats. At its most basic definition, Industry 4.0 is a real-time approach to decision-making, enabled by integrated and reliable data. Industry 4.0

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Building User-Centric and Responsible Generative AI Products

Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn

This presentation unveils a comprehensive 7-step framework designed to navigate the complexities of developing, launching, and scaling Generative AI products. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Join Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy, as she presents common issues agile teams have with incorporating research, and how to solve them. Using the right strategy, your agile team will collect qualitative data, interpret it, and integrate it effectively. In this webinar, she'll make specific suggestions around: Team makeup.