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Featured Startup: Tooso
(Interview with CEO and Founder Ciro Greco) (1) Describe your startup.Tooso is a knowledge graph platform for natural language interfaces as a service. Users are getting used to great search and conversational experiences thanks to big tech companies like Amazon and Google who are building compelling natural language applications like Alexa or Google assistant. But the…
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Founder, Borsetta: Pamela Norton
(1) Who are you and what do you do? As a serial entrepreneur and disruptive technology innovator, Pamela’s latest venture Borsetta was founded from the data transparency and trust gap she uncovered among many suppliers, manufacturers, and contractors during the development of an eco-conscious jewelry brand known as Liberti. This experience, coupled with her background…
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Featured Startup: Borsetta
(1) Describe your startup. Borsetta provides the most trusted, secure, transparent titled luxury assets in the world. We’ve developed the first, patented Nano-Technology providing digital, tamper-proof titles on the blockchain securing the value and authenticity of your luxury jewelry assets. Our revolutionary blockchain technology is designed specifically to solve the problems of the luxury jewelry industry. …
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Are We on the Cusp Changing How We Manage People?
Are contemporary management models in need of a makeover? Read more to continue the discussion on why the “widget-based” management approach is now becoming obsolete in a world where there is no such thing as “one-size-fits-all.”
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Founder, cerebain: Kareem Ayyad
(1) Who are you and what do you do?My name is Kareem Ayyad, founder of Cerebian. I work on expanding (exponentially) the way humans interact with computers and each other. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem.At Cerebian we’re building what we call a “Brain OS”.Participated in multiple…
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Featured Startup: cerebian
(1) Describe your startup.Cerebian is building a Brain OS; a full-stack neural interface that expands the way humans interact with each other and the world. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup?Technology is the tool we use to empower our lives. Smartphones make us smarter by virtue of having them. When you look at…
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How Do We Work Together?
“Study after study has indicated that diversity is a critical factor to high performing startups. The differences in thought, beliefs and even understanding is critical to comprehending the diverse and nuanced markets that are the bread and butter of startups today… If diversity has proven itself to be a high performing accelerant, why has it…
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Co-Founder, Spectra Plasmonics: Christian Baldwin
(1) Who are you and what do you do?My name is Christian Baldwin and I am one of the Co-Founders of Spectra Plasmonics. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem.I started my company Spectra Plasmonics at the Queen’s Innovation Connector summer program which is a University run incubator. We…
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Featured Startup: Spectra Plasmonics
(1) Describe your startup.Spectra Plasmonics makes innovative chemical detection technology that provides lab grade results in the palm of your hand. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup?We came together at our university’s startup incubation program, where entrepreneurial students come together, form teams, and start a company. Our team was interested in working on big problems. Marijuana…
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Why We Need To “Expand The Tent” On Opportunity
The pandemic continues its unrelenting disruption of the socio-political and economic orders around the globe with the results leading to significant and long lasting devastation. There is increasing worry about the potential for increased bankruptcies, joblessness and homelessness once government funded rescue programs end. What we, as a society, are seeing is a significant reduction…