TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

Before Eric Landau co-founded Encord , he spent nearly a decade at DRW, where he was lead quantitative researcher on a global equity delta one desk and put thousands of models into production. Below are four factors that founders should consider when deciding to build computer vision models. He holds an S.M.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But if you make random acts of kindness a habit, you build credit for times when being too much yourself is inevitable. It’s hard to be productive with a sore back. People who laugh together are better equipped to meet challenges and solve problems as a group. I like the way this concept combines productivity with recreation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

What we’re really trying to do is modernize rainwater harvestingto take this ancient technology to solve a modern-day problem, says founder Danny Wright. Later this year, the organization plans to also begin adding the technology to buildings in a city in Massachusetts. Children often got sick from drinking the water.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Machine learning algorithms can now diagnose diseases, predict climate patterns, and solve complex problems that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. We’ve reached a critical moment in the sustainability of the AI products we’re creating. And we’re not slowing down.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Two billion people worldwidethats 80% of the global workforcemanufacture products, provide services, or work directly with customers. Theyre often the first to see or hear about problems, and listening to their insights can help avoid headaches. Leaders, are you listening to your frontline employees?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Instead of investing in one-off solutions, Sawyer suggests that organizations boost leaders capabilities to lead in a way that supports teams and, as a byproduct, drives results and productivity. Building stronger teams happens when leaders and teammates share their struggles. She offers four techniques that can help.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

In the 170 years since Western Union was founded, no company has managed to solve two basic problems that continue to bedevil the remittance business — exorbitant fees and slow deposit times. Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe , two software engineers based in Nigeria, faced this problem in 2019. to reach a relative in Nigeria.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

The problem is that time is a limited resource. If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. Let participants know ahead of time what those 3 agenda items are so they can be prepared for productive conversation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Listen carefully as you’ll hear problems you’re uniquely positioned to solve. Here’s how we can take it further: Allow employees to pitch and lead their own initiatives, whether it’s process improvements, new product ideas, or research that aligns with company goals.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

In any area of competence, measuring the collective output of a team or group of individuals will identify a Pareto-like distribution whereby 20% or so of individuals account for 80% or so of results, output, or productivity. Are they building more meaningful industry connections? Have you increased your actual productivity?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Maxim Kharchenko is the director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber and is an expert in product leadership in the financial technology sector. It’s the why, how and what is done with it that matters most when it comes to building a profitable and sustainable business that simultaneously respects the privacy of its users.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Dolapo Adebayo encountered this problem while searching for an apartment after returning to Nigeria from the U.K. So instead of going out and raising venture capital, we decided that we were going to bootstrap because we could convince some landlords to list their homes on this platform that we had built and derisk some of their problems.”.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. — Dawn Darby from The Therapy Place People-Oriented Board Members Can Better Support EDs Board members are most effective when they engage in high-level thinking and generative conversation rather than problem-focused rehashing of minor issues and problems. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2024

As you build a thriving community with your customer success team, you’ll have the tools and resources you need to utilize your AMS and meet the needs of your entire organization. She loves creating connections with clients and solving problems by utilizing Nimble AMS is her favorite part of being a Customer Success Manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text. Group members always have the option to leave whenever they choose.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

You want to be certain your data is secure, and you need to know that you are problem-solving with accurate information and statistics. While a policy that restricts access might keep your data safe, it also builds a wall around that wealth of information. This is not the place for independent problem-solving.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G Absence or poor adoption of company-wide guidelines surrounding the creation and deployment of data products. Is it the responsibility of the data product managers?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

For instance, if collaboration is a priority, design team processes that reward joint problem-solving. Build performance reviews and reward systems that recognize behaviors aligned with cultural goals. A well-integrated culture enhances employee engagement, driving measurable improvements in productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. You’ll need to understand both elements and how they work together, for a successful end product. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this age of digital overload and short attention spans, nonprofits that want to raise more money will instead create and sustain authentic, productive, long-term relationships with a network of individuals, corporate executives, government representatives, and/or impact investors. Fundraising mistake #3.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This representative should be dedicated to building lasting relationships with members and helping your organization fine-tune culture, products, and services to meet their changing needs. Seeks solutions—products and services are designed to solve members’ challenges. “Guessing about member preferences is not an option.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. That’s one of the reasons we launched AltSchool because if a lot of people can have marketable skills, then I think we can solve a massive problem in the market.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. For most products, it’s either you are figuring stuff out, or you figured it out. million in an oversubscribed seed round. But Boampong disagrees.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

We have real deep experience with Fortune 500 types of scaled problems, and we can address that and build teams in a really modern agile way that allows us to address a lot of different needs. Second, product development in the form of blueprints or accelerators for improved and innovative work, that can result in IP and other assets.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chances are your problems stem from focusing too much on technology and not enough on behavior. They make the cultural shifts that enable thinking and problem-solving in ways that are compatible with rapid change. They collaborated with popular franchises, developed video games and apps, and created products for adults.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Empathy is what helps identify members’ needs and provide products and services that contribute to their well-being and professional success. By designing systems, products, and services from the perspective of their human users, we can compensate for, and even exceed, what might be accomplished in a person-to-person transaction.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Now, the AI age is marked by the development of generative AI, agentic AI and AI reasoning, which enables models to process more data to learn and reason to solve complex problems. Orchestrating this new infrastructure is far more complex than it was to build steam-powered factories.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have the power to create a world where each innovation brings us closer as communities, makes us stronger leaders, and builds more impactful organizations. Listening to data with an open-minded desire to hear the truth brings a level of transparency that builds trust and is highly attractive to members.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. The most challenging problems centered around culture. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen. Empathy— is the basis for all productive relationships. It’s the Golden Rule with a twist.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How to build a modern, scalable data platform to power your analytics and data science projects (updated) Table of Contents: What’s changed? Orchestration I mentioned modularity as a core concept of building a modern data platform in my 2021 article, but I failed to emphasize the importance of data orchestration.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have the answers and the resources to help you join the AI revolution and prepare to build your first low-code app. Think of how often you use productivity tools such as email rules in Outlook or Gmail. And how can you get started on low-code development with the fundraising software and data you’re already using?

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As Reuters pointed out , it could also be a "textbook" example of "founder's syndrome," a situation when one or more founders maintain huge amounts of influence, which eventually leads to a litany of problems. "I I wish he would just compete by building a better product, but I think theres been a lot of tactics," Altman told Bloomberg today.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 10, 2023

Posted by Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, and Kishwar Shafin, Research Scientist, Genomics For decades, researchers worked together to assemble a complete copy of the molecular instructions for a human — a map of the human genome. The first draft was finished in 2000, but with several missing pieces.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. Products are sustainable and environmentally-friendly. 12) Heal the Bay :: shop.healthebay.org. 18) NPR Shop :: shop.npr.org.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Look to create new and innovative products and services for an underserved population in your membership. Strategy 2: Double Down With the Double Down strategy, you’re looking for products, services, and member segments that are really working well for your association.

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Forum One

MARCH 11, 2025

If your organization is using Drupal for content management, a thoughtful product roadmap can make all the difference between a sustainable solution and a maintenance headache. Why Drupal Needs Its Own Roadmapping Approach Why can’t you just use a standard product roadmap for your Drupal project?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.” Most of them have taken over some niches and are great at what they do: selling their products,” Luccisano writes. Only time will tell.

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