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Disruption is at an all-time high
Disruption is at an all-time high. The CEOs who think outside their four walls will thrive — while the ones who don’t will disappear.
Whether they do it out of fear or complacency, the CEOs who continue to operate within their “four walls” — who refuse to look to external sources to help drive innovation — will increasingly find themselves out of a job. ...
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Forbes
Fred Hoch featured in Forbes article, “4 Unexpected Ways That Partnering With A Corporation Could Help Your Startup”
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exponential corporate growth
The answer to exponential corporate growth
Using a conventional approach, corporations are paying more than they should to develop new products, markets, or revenue streams. Capital can be employed much more effectively using something like Branch Rickey’s farm system.
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Supporting speech to text across browsers for voice search | Algolia Blog
Until today, if you wanted to use speech to text in browsers across desktop and ...
Internet Escape Velocity
Internet Escape Velocity
How companies can break free from Google and Facebook to own their own demand
destroying tech cleans up our calls
Noise-destroying tech cleans up our calls
Two noise-cancelling AI systems – Nvidia RTX Voice and Krisp – are put to the ...
The Verticalization of Zoom
The Verticalization of Zoom
The 232 companies unbundling video conferencing and collaboration :exploding_head:
Daily Active Crisis
Daily Active Crisis
How do we unwind society’s biggest “accumulated accidents”?
MOLTEN to Unveil at Cannes First Delivery-as-a-Service Solution for Film, TV Content
MTonomy Announces Rebrand to MOLTEN
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) May 05, 2020 Cloud infrastructure platform MTonomy announced today that it has ...
Finding an Opportunity in a Crisis
Finding an Opportunity in a Crisis
Crisis by definition represents a stark deviation from the norm, and deviations often create a ...
leaders need to see the world as is, not how they wish it to be
In a crisis, leaders need to see the world as is, not how they wish it to be
As we seek to understand what the current crisis means for our businesses in the ...
Top 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2020
Top 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2020
AI startups are concentrating on how to use AI for good, as Eightfold’s Talent Exchange ...
Autonomy on Trial
Autonomy on Trial
When discussing the arrival of autonomous workboats, many – especially those developing the technologies that ...
Why everything you know about startup metaphors is wrong
Why everything you know about startup metaphors is wrong
The founder of Trint says that hockey sticks, rockets, pirates, etc. are all helpful (and ...
The Importance of Culture in a Crisis
“Communications and culture may be even more important than strategy and vision at this time.”— ...
8 Under-the-Radar Outdoor Adventure Apps You’ll Actually Use
8 Under-the-Radar Outdoor Adventure Apps You’ll Actually Use
Since we’re all spending more time on our phones while we’re stuck at home, we ...
Economic Oceans
A framework for analyzing the building blocks and catalysts of emergent demand
AI. Reverie secures $5.6m financing led by Vulcan Capital
AI. Reverie secures $5.6m financing led by Vulcan Capital
Synthetic data company to accelerate product development and hiring to match ramping demand.