An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous
Wired
APRIL 7, 2025
Startup Gameto has developed a technique for maturing eggs outside the body thats showing promise at helping patients get pregnant with fewer hormone treatments.
6 Tips on How to Use Social Media to Acquire New Donor Prospects
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Alternatively, groups may drive traffic to their website or landing page but ask too prematurely before the prospect has even been appropriately cultivated. The techniques are the same; it is just the medium that is different. One should not ignore these prospects, or else these donor acquisition efforts will fail.
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Dive deep into Snorkel.AI’s pitch technique that raised $135m
TechCrunch
MARCH 14, 2022
Still, it means nothing if you cannot communicate how it maps to real problems and how it is contextualized within alternative solutions.” You could have the fanciest, highest-performing method. ” Ratner was joined on TechCrunch Live by Saam Motamedi, Greylock partner and the lead investor in Snorkel.AI’s $3.3
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Zero Acre Farms puts microbes (and $37M) to work on a better alternative to vegetable oil
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Zero Acre Farms is a new company aiming to provide an improved alternative, produced by microorganisms and fermentation, and just raised $37 million to do it. The point is: Vegetable oil may not be napalm, but it isn’t great, and a healthier and less resource-intensive alternative would be welcome.
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Product Clustering Techniques in Demand Forecasting
DataRobot
APRIL 26, 2021
To improve the performance of such demand forecasting models, we can use several modeling techniques. All of these techniques center around product clustering, where product lines or SKUs that are “closer” or more similar to each other are clustered and modeled together. In this blog post, we describe these strategies. Request now.
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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness
TechImpact
JULY 16, 2014
Chances are good, your nonprofit has employed an array of communication techniques. But it still important to know which donors prefer giving through the traditional post, or like to give via alternative payment methods like paypal vs your websites online portal. Direct mail. Phone calls. Home or cell? Types of communication.
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Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Like other companies in the meat alternative space, the startup is founded on the premise that the traditional meat industry is unsustainable. This is seeing demand for meat alternatives soaring, but, argues Steele, these products still aren’t good enough. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.
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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2020
Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged. Another fun role is “Rabbit Hole Monitor” that uses a technique called “ ELMO ” (enough already let’s move on).
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Planted raises another $21M to expand its growing plant-based meat empire (and add schnitzel)
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Swiss alternative protein company Planted has raised its second round of the year, a CHF 19 million (about $21 million at present) “pre-B” fundraise that will help it continue its growth and debut new products. Swiss maker of meat alternatives Planted will expand and diversify with $18M Series A. This has been corrected.).
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How Nonprofits Can Effectively Promote their Online Shop on Instagram and Facebook
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
If Shopify isn’t your cup of tea, there are many alternatives. Here are some techniques to promote it on social media. Shopify’s biggest selling points are that it is super mobile friendly and it easily plugs into the shop experience on Instagram and Facebook. Already have a shop? Bring your storefront to Instagram and Facebook.
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Daily Crunch: New AI model DeepFloyd IF offers ‘advanced text-to-image generation techniques’
TechCrunch
MAY 5, 2023
It’s been over a year since Elon Musk announced his bid to buy Twitter, and those who opposed the sale have tried setting up shop on platforms like Mastodon, Substack Notes, T2…but none of these Twitter alternatives have really captured lightning in a bottle like Bluesky.
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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 7, 2019
I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday. This technique is simple.
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The level of Mac malware is not acceptable, says Apple’s Craig Federighi at Epic trial
The Verge
MAY 19, 2021
If you took Mac security techniques and applied them to the iOS ecosystem, with all those devices, all that value, it would get run over to a degree dramatically worse than is already happening on the Mac,” Federighi said in the testimony. “And The Mac is not meeting that bar today.
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Handling schemers if shutdown is not an option
The AI Alignment Forum
APRIL 18, 2025
Weve previously written about techniques that you might use once youve caught your AIs red-handed trying to subvert your safety measures; catching your AIs red-handed is a particularly important mechanism by which you might become confident your model is a schemer. Techniques to reduce P(scheming). control techniques).
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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Is it the best?
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IRS will end use of facial recognition after widespread privacy concerns
The Verge
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
was announced, and the revenue agency reportedly began to look for alternatives soon after. walked back an initial claim that its facial recognition systems did not use a one-to-many matching technique. did use the matching technique in certain circumstances. Criticism increased after ID.me
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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 23, 2013
Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.
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Nonprofit Innovation Toolkits: Methods To Invent, Adopt, and Adapt Ideas to Deliver Better Results
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2014
Imagine scenarios of use, and provoke and inspire alternatives. Look at both the detail and the big picture. Make things to explore, test and learn. Make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. Has your nonprofit used design thinking for strategy, problem solving, or new idea generation?
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9 insider tips for promoting your app
The Next Web
JULY 20, 2013
The days after launch can be harsh and unrewarding, but smart developers employ a host of ‘old school’ web promotion techniques to create a flow of downloads. A website will also allow you to use old-school marketing techniques of site promotion like banners, SEO and link exchanges. Here are some of my top tips: 1.
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Eat Just to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore after gaining “world first” regulatory approval
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2020
While there are plenty of other companies working on lab-grown meats using various techniques, Eat Just describes the Singapore government’s review and regulatory approval as a “world first.” Startups making meat alternatives are gaining traction worldwide.
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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 13, 2018
Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .
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6 Fun Icebreakers for Nonprofit Training Sessions
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
I have a repertoire of icebreakers and always like to discover new ones. I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Icebreakers Can Be Fun!
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 18, 2013
More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training.
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Bon Vivant toasts taking $15.9M to brew up versatile animal-free dairy proteins
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental footprint than traditional dairy, credits clarity of strategy and execution for keeping its investors enthused at a time when raising remains (..)
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Running Effective Virtual #Nonprofit Meetings: 9 Best Practices for Facilitating Engagement
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening. Additional Tools and Techniques.
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Planetary wants to help food startups brew up more fake meat
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
Planetary , a Geneva, Switzerland-based food tech company, is tapping into a new $8 million cash infusion to construct an industrial-scale production facility so that its customers leveraging fermentation technology can create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. This is Brandes’ second venture in alternative protein.
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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advances
Google Research AI blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs. closures, incidents).
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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 19, 2013
Of course, we talked about data entry and QA testing, but also less obvious and exciting alternatives that have great potential both to revitalize the South Bronx and address the problem of the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.
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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 10, 2022
There’s no stopping innovation, however, and alternative sources of protein are increasingly becoming a choice people would rather make. Currently, alternative protein makes up just about 2% of the animal protein market, but it is expected to increase more than 7x by 2025. “We Cell-cultured meat is one such source.
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YouTube is about to age-restrict way more videos
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Similar to how YouTube used machine learning techniques to try to better catch violent extremism and more of the platform’s most severe content beginning in 2017 , and later to find videos that included hateful conduct , the same approach will be used in this case to automatically flag videos YouTube deems not age-appropriate.
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French foodtech Standing Ovation nabs $12 million for animal-free dairy cheese
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
“Casein is the holy grail for the production of alternative options that match conventional products in nutrition, taste and texture, yet it has remained notoriously difficult to create,” Eric Archambeau, cofounder of Astanor Ventures which led Standing Ovations’s investment, said in a statement.
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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithms for efficient deep learning
Google Research AI blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In 2022, we focused on new techniques for infusing external knowledge by augmenting models via retrieved context; mixture of experts; and making transformers (which lie at the heart of most large ML models) more efficient. We recently proposed Treeformer , an alternative to standard attention computation that relies on decision trees.
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Y Combinator’s biotech startups incubate a new generation of therapies and tools
TechCrunch
MARCH 24, 2021
Atom’s founders have published the details of their techniques in Nature Chemistry, and says it’s working on a COVID-19 test as well as therapies for the virus and other conditions. For instance, a DNA machine could lock onto COVID-19 viruses and then release a chemical signal indicating infection before killing the virus.
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20+ Exciting Golf Tournament Fundraising Ideas to Raise More
OneCause
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Alternatively, if every golfer donates $25 / every foursome donates $100, you’ll hit your goal of $1,800, whichfeeds the shelter’s puppies for one full year. Alternatively, you can hold a standalone putting contest on the first green or at a mini-golf course. #6 Use this as a chance to educate supporters on your cause!
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8 methods to grow your SaaS company
The Next Web
AUGUST 18, 2013
Here are eight growth techniques we’ve used with success at Mhelpdesk, a field service software startup, to help us get free trial signups that later convert into paid accounts. Alternatively, each organic search lead averages three logins with a monthly revenue around $90 — definitely worth the acquisition cost. Organic search.
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How to Create the Perfect Email List
NonProfit Hub
APRIL 3, 2020
Most of the email marketing software allows you to segregate your lists, and while Mailchimp is one of the most popular, you can look at other alternatives to choose from as well. . Building an Email List – What are the Best Techniques? Here are some of the best ones you can use.
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Best of Tableau Web: August 2022
Tableau
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
After all, what better way to test your skills than explaining a technique to others? Spaghetti Charts Suggested Alternative: A Trellis Chart. Ten Tips & Techniques: Round 5. To finish the program, participants are asked to share their Tableau knowledge to benefit the broader community and themselves. Andy Kriebel , VizWiz.
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Best of Tableau Web: August 2022
Tableau
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
After all, what better way to test your skills than explaining a technique to others? Spaghetti Charts Suggested Alternative: A Trellis Chart. Ten Tips & Techniques: Round 5. To finish the program, participants are asked to share their Tableau knowledge to benefit the broader community and themselves. Andy Kriebel , VizWiz.
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Making ML models differentially private: Best practices and open challenges
Google Research AI blog
MAY 19, 2023
While there are successful examples of protecting training data using DP, obtaining good utility with differentially private ML (DP-ML) techniques can be challenging. We provide an overview of common techniques for obtaining DP-ML models and discuss research, engineering challenges, mitigation techniques and current open questions.
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Building a Nonprofit Data Marketing Strategy Without Cookies
Nonprofits Source
APRIL 1, 2025
Alternatively, you may use data enrichment to identify supporters with children and invite them to family-friendly events. Research potential partners data privacy and collection practices, and dont be afraid to ask about their sourcing techniques to ensure they leverage accurate, reputable external data sources.
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The 10 most innovative data science companies of 2025
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 18, 2025
By combining the worlds largest manufacturing data foundation with proprietary algorithms, the company claims to deliver real-time lifecycle assessments 100 times faster than the best available alternatives. Its user-friendly dashboard guides designers and engineers to better data-driven decisions early in development.
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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences
sgEngage
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.
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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare
The Next Web
APRIL 20, 2013
Our program used Lean Sigma to figure out the variance in care, we then used design thinking and brain storming techniques in partnership with IDEO to come up with solutions. I also describe how we incorporated Lean Startup as part of a broader framework for change. Finally, we used Lean Startup to create MVPs and test these solutions.
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