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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

The problem here isn’t that private investors lose out on juicy opportunities. The problem is that they would have declined to invest in the first place. Not because they don’t invest in cannabis — few do. But Leafy Tunnel is one of them, meaning that its viewpoint here matters.

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Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

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Some leaders prefer to hang back and let others be the guinea pigs. We don’t invest in potential, we invest in known solutions to help with our members’ critical problems,” Tom advises. Modernizing processes solves many customer service problems.” You may not want to be the first to dive into the newest digital trends.

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Greywing launches Crew Change to help shipping companies navigate COVID-19 regulations

TechCrunch

Clarke told TechCrunch in an email that the company was originally created to help the maritime industry to mitigate risks in the Gulf of Guinea and offshore Somalia, which have high rates of piracy , by delivering rapid intelligence about those shipping lanes. “We Greywing’s risk report dashboard.

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Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech providing digital solutions for school admin, raises $1.8M

TechCrunch

Zeraki is also looking to enter 10 new markets over the next three years, after scaling in Kenya, Uganda and Guinea, where it currently operates. “We’re But around 2017 we realized that data was actually a much bigger problem in schools,” Nyangolo said. Zeraki data analytics system helps schools to better manage students’ data.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. The horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners. The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient.

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Facebook is turning VR into a platform — but some indie developers fear its power

The Verge

We’re basically guinea pigs.’ But as it’s grown from a hobbyist experiment to a small commercial ecosystem, independent developers are facing a familiar problem: an ecosystem where powerful platforms are effectively competing with their own developers. We’re basically guinea pigs — building cool stuff to see what works.”.

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Quris combines AI with ‘patient on a chip’ to speed drug development and reduce animal testing

TechCrunch

Without the AI interpreting it, the data suddenly becomes a multi-PhD type of problem. What, are you the guinea pig? The answer is: yes, we’re all guinea pigs. But Bentwich was quick to note that they in no way anticipate eliminating the biological side and relying only on the AI. But this is a first step away from that.”

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