There are only two rules for how the money can be divided: 1) no one company gets it all, and 2) it can’t be split equally. SheEO has used this process before, to good results. For example, one group decided that each company would come up with budgets and ask for money from the group, which resulted in companies sharing resources to keep each other’s costs down. Where will the money come from?...
CHICAGO’S HOTTEST SHOWCASING STARTUPS Reader’s Choice Project Travel – Project Travel is a peer-funding platform that makes educational travel possible. Meaningful travel takes money, but too many students skip this formative experience because of some perceived financial limitation. Project Travel sparks future travelers to ask for money with confidence while making it easier than ever to activate their communities to give Best Pitch WeDeliver – Commonly referred to as “Uber for deliveries,” WeDeliver believes the best part about what they do is the crowdsourcing component....
People don’t all learn the same way. Some people are visual learners, other auditory, others textual, and other kinesthetic (learning by doing). Many educators already know that approaching education from different angles will benefit students’ retention of information–and more educators are using infographics as a tool to do so. According to a 2008 Cisco report, multimodal learning – that is, a combination of visual and textual approaches to learning–increased students’ retention of basic skills (such as learning chemical symbols, individual learning through reading) by 21 percent and higher-order skills (such as critical thinking, problem solving) by 20 percent....
CloudSight features an image recognition API, which is already quite popular thanks to the CamFind app. This API features a growing database of over 400 million images, consisting of high quality metadata and annotations. With this, it utilizes real world data, curated over the last four years, to train deep learning neural networks to automatically caption images. With this analysis of the Star Wars universe, CloudSight managed to compile a list, featuring the top-10 most searched figurines....
Founded in July in DC, Contactually stores information on your email contacts and syncs with Salesforce and Highrise CRMs. But more importantly, it adds value throughout the life of a relationship. When you email a new contact, Contactually sends you an email asking how you met, what you thought of them, and how to tag them. It parses these emails – which you can write as you would to a personal assistant – using the startup’s original technology....
Another important application of machine learning has to do with Internet security. More specifically, an issue that affects the mobile advertising industry: fraud. The rise in fraud is one of the greatest challenges currently that mobile video advertising has to face these days, as bots and other sources can have a negative impact on the advertisement’s effectiveness. Along with its rise, fraud is also becoming increasingly more sophisticated. All this causes advertisers to lose important parts of their investments, with all the consequential poor-quality traffic....
In DC, the gender pay gap for women in computer and mathematical occupations is almost non-existent (women earn 99.3 percent of what men earn), the average annual income after housing cost is almost $60,000 and 40 percent of the city’s tech jobs are filled by women (compared to San Francisco where 75 percent of the tech workforce is men). SmartAsset looked at the U.S. Census Bureau American Communities Survey for 2014, the most recent year for which data is available....
The road ahead looks rocky, but the benefits of navigating it safely look better than ever. And yes, we mean the monetary kind of benefits: Overall venture capital deal values in 2017 were — for the first time — higher than the dot-com era peak in 2000 and 2001. VC Deal Values Hit $84.2 Billion in 2017 The $84.2 billion number comes thanks to a just-released study from Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association covering all four quarters of 2017....
In a TEDGlobal talk called “A kinder, gentler philosophy of success,” de Botton outlines the societal factors that are ganging up to make us feel like losers. Job snobbery is rampant, where people you meet at a party or even your family is quick to judge you entirely based on your job. We’re told we can do anything. This is a society of equality, after all! “It’s made to feel ....
EHang is the company behind dozens of drone breakthroughs. In fact, they were the first company to create a drone capable of carrying humans. Now, they are taking on the risky but generous task of transporting human organs in emergency situations to those in need, by pairing with a well-known pharmaceutical and lung transplant tech company, Lung Biotechnology. The deal will result in 15 years of collaboration between the two companies, seeing 1,000 of EHang’s autonomous drones being used as MOTHs (Lung Biotechnology’s Manufactured Organ Transplant vehicle system)....
Apple Pay is the latest would-be protector of our digital security and identity. But does it have big enough shoulders to hold up to the world’s expectations? Does anything? Why has this level of pressure not been placed on mobile payment products that have been around much longer than the nascent Apple Pay? It is as if people expect that what comes out of unfocused, feature-driven product companies to be a lamentable mess....
The tech giant is expected to reveal a new iPad and updated AirPods, whilst also finally making the AirTags Bluetooth trackers it announced last year available to buy. However, there are those who think that Apple won’t be holding the event next week at all and that it will take place in the final week of March. Here’s what you can expect from the Apple event — whenever it’s held — and what you shouldn’t get your hopes up for....
The New York Times is one major publication that’s still on the fence. The new Facebook News tab will likely launch by the end of this month. It’s the latest chapter in Facebook’s history of business dealings with news organizations. What Deal Has Been Struck? Facebook is starting a new section of its massive social media platform in order to give its users the latest, most relevant news. To that end, it’s reaching out to a selection of the biggest media outlets available to get them to lend access to their constantly updated headlines and article previews....
The number falls inside the larger amount reported earlier in the year: Facebook will be offering a whopping $50 million to those using its Facebook Live streaming service. Most of the money goes to media companies like Buzzfeed and the New York Times, but a random assortment of celebrities are in on it, too: “Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown ($244,000), Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps ($224,000) and “Star Trek” actor George Takei ($114,000)” are all included, according to the same WSJ article....
Other People’s Money – Background Basics Before seeking the money of others, it’s important to understand and review what others will look at when considering your application or funding your business. There are three things you need to know: Credit Score/Credit ReportBanks and investors will want to know your credit score. Your credit score is based on information in your credit report. The information is grouped into five main categories, payment history, amounts owed, length of credit history, new credit and types of credit used....
It’s a bold ambition and it will make the likes of Google worried. They have only experienced 11 accidents, of which none of them were their fault, so it’s a surprise that they aren’t in pole position. Ford Is Throwing Everything at the Problem Ford has decided it will double its investment in its research center in Palo Alto, California. It’s also making a number of investments in tech startups within the industry....
Today, after nearly four years of being a purely digital media company, Foundr Magazine is looking to do something different and is publishing its first ever physical product. It’s a coffee table book called Foundr Version 1.0 and it carries within it the best lessons, tips and advice from some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurial minds like Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Seth Godin, to name a few. According to its founder the book is “designed to be the next bible for entrepreneurs everywhere,” but the question remains as to why a digital media company is creating a physical book after all these years....
So why was Apple fined this time? Take a look at the information below and get ready for Apple to take a huge hit to its budget. Why Has Apple Been Fined? According to France’s Autorité de la Concurrence, Apple is being fined €1.1 billion (approximately $1.2 billion) for illegally regulating how wholesalers priced Apple products. More specifically, the tech giant implemented higher prices to make sure they lined up with its prices worldwide to — and here’s the important part — prevent meaningful competition....
An infographic created by immigration blog Migreat shows which countries around the world offer entrepreneur visas, as well as lists the requirements a person or a company has to meet in order to attain such visas. The infographic looks at the general requirements for entrepreneur visas in countries like Canada, Chile, and the United Kingdom – a total of eleven countries. Looking at the infographic, it seems that startups that have already received a decent amount of funding fare better at being granted entrepreneur visas; many countries, for instance, require that companies already received funding between $40,000 and $100,000....
The technology works by alerting operating companies to faults when they appear or are about to develop, enabling lift operators to save money and time on repairs. But elevators are generally considered as one of the safest forms of transport, so do we actually need internet-connected lifts, and how exactly do they work? How do Internet-Connected Elevators Work? Internet-connected elevators work by attaching sensors that gather data about the elevator’s usage and other conditions that impact the lifespan of particular parts....
