What Really Makes Up the Heart of Your Brand? Your Employees. Here’s How.
Employees play a pivotal role as the backbone of an SMB’s brand. This is how you can — and should — build your brand from within.
US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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January 2024
‘They Are Broke or Homeless’: 3-Year Cruise Passengers Yet to Receive Refunds Are Pursuing Fraud Charges
Would-be Life at Sea cruise passengers saw their dreams capsize before the ship even set sail.
She Was Unhappy at Her Engineering Job and Wanted to Help Children. Now She’s Tripled Her Household Income Running a Kid-Centric Business.
Kayla Opperman made a pivotal career switch from engineering to entrepreneurship. Today, she’s earning nearly three times more as a Snapology franchisee.
The 8 Best Free and Low-Cost SEO Tools for Small Businesses
Here are some tools that business owners can use to optimize their websites and bring in more revenue
Free Webinar | January 23: How to Pick a Winning Franchise in 2024
Join our free webinar to learn how to find your perfect franchise. With a combined 50+ years of experience in the franchise industry, our panelists will share everything you need to know to make the best choice possible. Register now!
Amazon eyes AI, autonomous vehicles and Asia as $1B innovation fund evolves
Amazon has spent nearly two years putting an undisclosed portion of its $1 billion industrial innovation fund to work with investments in nearly a dozen U.S. and Israeli startups focused on logistics, the supply chain and customer fulfillment. Now, Amazon is flexing a bit — with an aim to expand geographically and to push into […]
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DeepMind’s latest AI can solve geometry problems
DeepMind, the Google AI R&D lab, believes that the key to more capable AI systems might lie in uncovering new ways to solve challenging geometry problems. To that end, DeepMind today unveiled AlphaGeometry — a system that the lab claims can solve as many geometry problems as the average International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist. AlphaGeometry, […]
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A startup pitch is not a presentation and founders must understand the differences
Contrary to popular belief, a pitch is not a presentation. A presentation is a clearly defined event allotted a fixed amount of time. The audience sits back, expecting the presentation to start at a particular time and end at a specific time. The audience typically does not expect that it needs to be involved. As […]
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TuSimple is leaving the Nasdaq as it exits the US
Chinese autonomous trucking startup TuSimple will delist itself from the Nasdaq stock exchange as it moves forward with its plan to fully exit the U.S. market. The company announced Wednesday that it will file what’s known as a Form 25 on (or around) January 29 to deregister its stock, and expects the shares to trade […]
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AI versus SaaS, EV charging, and a new $250M fund
This week, we’re digging into fundraises from Vertice, Electra, and Build a Rocket Boy, and what Thomvest plans to do with its new $250M fund.
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