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EXCLUSIVE: From HustleGPT To BabyAGI: How Entrepreneurs Are Using AI To Streamline Businesses
Friday, August 11, 2023 - 10:42am | 860Calling all founders and operators! Have you been looking for ways to offload your decision-making? Meet BabyAGI, an artificial intelligence (AI) designed for founders. Inspired by the “HustleGPT” movement, a collective of entrepreneurs using AI to start and scale businesses, BabyAGI is...
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Melinda Gates Partners With Techstars, The Second Largest Startup Accelerator in the World, To Address the Unmet Needs of Older Adults
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 10:26am | 520Melinda French Gates joined Microsoft Corp. in 1987 and helped grow the technology company into the $2 trillion-dollar powerhouse that it is today. French Gates and her ex-husband Microsoft Founder Bill Gates grew the business into one of the most valuable and successful companies in the...
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'Venmo Meets Robinhood': How Staax Will Let You Pay Your Friends In Stocks And More
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 12:00pm | 1097Gone are the days when simplified trading apps were the paradigm shift in financial services. Consumers now demand more. They want education, information and easy back-and-forth communication with their financial services providers and embedded networks, as well as access. That’s...
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Lance, A Self-Driving Bank Account For The Self-Employed, Closes On $2.8M Round
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 9:01am | 253Lance, a smart business banking account for the self-employed, has closed on a $2.8-million seed round and launched a business account for freelancers as well as side hustlers. What Happened: Built by a team of ex-freelancers, Lance is a bank account that automatically identifies deductibles...
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Barclays Accelerator Powered By Techstars To Scout For Fintech Startups At The Benzinga Fintech Awards
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 5:18pm | 1004Benzinga, a leading online financial media publication and host of the Benzinga Fintech Awards, an event dedicated to recognizing outstanding innovation in financial technology that is specific to the capital markets, announced today the participation of Barclays Accelerator powered by TechStars...
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Weekly Highlights: No New Apple TV, Sony's Ongoing Hacking Troubles And More
Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 11:43am | 157Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is a big fan of annual upgrades, but its set-top box hasn't received a hardware update for more than two years. Analysts told Benzinga why Apple might be waiting. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), on the other hand, showed now hesitation in upgrading its search feature. South...
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How This Startup Accelerator Could Help Find 'The Next Uber' In Detroit
Friday, December 12, 2014 - 8:51am | 770Techstars, one of the world's leading startup accelerators, has already set up shop in Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, London, New York and Seattle. Now Techstars has teamed up with Fontinalis Partners to bring a new, mobility-only accelerator to Detroit. "We've been working for...
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How Will Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter Look in One Year?
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 5:37pm | 780Why Twitter could be the social network that outlasts them all. As we speak, a war is brewing. It is not one with weapons and bloodshed, but one with status updates, embarrassing photos, and nonsensical messages written in 140 characters or less. It is one with things you Like but never what you...
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What Does it Take to Impress Foundry Group Co-Founder Brad Feld?
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 6:54pm | 592Zynga founder Mark Pincus might have the answer. If you're going to impress Brad Feld, co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, you had better be prepared to go above and beyond the average entrepreneur. “What we end up looking for are entrepreneurs who are incredibly obsessed about the...
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You Might be Smarter than a Fifth Grader, But Are You Smarter than a Venture Capitalist?
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 8:24pm | 525Go ahead, ask yourself. If your answer falls somewhere between “uhhh…” and “I don't know,” don't fret – it is quite common for entrepreneurs to have less information than the people who invest in their firms. “The only people that really understood how venture capital deals work [are] the VCs,...