Nelson
@Nelson
453 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Kraig
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over 4 years ago
How Many of Quibi's Paltry Launch Day Downloads Were Rage Downloads?
Image : QuibiQuibi, the (mostly) mobile- only streaming service that launched this week, doesn’t appear to have had a spectacular response straight out of the gate—in fact, the response was rather abysmal. According to one preliminary estimate, Quibi’s launch-day download...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hulda
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over 4 years ago
SMB loans platform Kabbage to furlough a ‘significant’ number of staff, close office in Bangalore
Another tech unicorn is feeling the pinch of doing business during the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Kabbage, the SoftBank-backed lending startup that uses machine learning to evaluate loan applications for small and medium businesses, is furloughing a “significant number”...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Bart
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over 4 years ago
5 Effective Low-Budget Marketing Strategies for Startups
Go back to basics with these proven methods of effective marketing.Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Startups operate under extremely tight budgets, which makes it almost impossible for them to set aside a marketing budget. With their tight bud...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ismael
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over 4 years ago
Building an Email List? This $12 Scraper Might Be Exactly What You Need.
Email marketing is easier than ever with EmailScraper.co.April 7, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sal...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elliott
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over 4 years ago
Einride demonstrates a single operator controlling multiple of its driverless cargo vehicles
Autonomous electric transportation startup Einride has taken a key step in its mission to deploy autonomous cargo pods on roads for commercial operations. The Swedish startup demonstrated its technology in use with one person remotely operating two pods at once, which is ...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Oren
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over 4 years ago
Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Affirmed Networks, a company that specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators.With its focus on 5G and edge computing, Affirmed looks like the ideal acquisition target for a large...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Microsoft hires Apple’s former wireless tech chief for its hardware division
Ruben Caballero, a former Apple executive, has joined Microsoft as corporate vice president for hardware design and technology. According to a new entry on his LinkedIn profile, which was first spotted by Bloomberg, Caballero will be part of Microsoft’s mixed reality and ...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Giovanni
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over 4 years ago
“A perfect storm for first time managers,” say VCs with their own shops (and who have advice)
Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.It helped that the world of vent...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Rahsaan
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over 4 years ago
'Artemis Fowl' will debut on Disney+
Artemis Fowl, based on the first book of the Artemis Fowl series by author Eoin Colfer, was originally supposed to be out in theaters in August 2019. Its release got pushed back to 2020 even before COVID-19 became a global issue.Disney didn't explain why it'll no longer g...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Pablo
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over 4 years ago
Madam CJ Walker: 'An inspiration to us all'
Image copyright David Lee/Netflix Image caption Octavia Spencer stars in a new Netflix show about the life of Madam CJ WalkerWhen American journalist A'Lelia Bundles published her first article about her great-great grandmother, Madam CJ Walker in 1982, it was in the "los...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Geovany
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over 4 years ago
Vericool raises $19.1 million for its plant-based packaging replacement for plastic coolers
Vericool, a Livermore, Calif.-based startup that’s replacing plastic coolers and packaging with plant-based products, has raised $19.1 million in a new round of financing.The company’s stated goal is to replace traditional packaging materials like polystyrene with plant-b...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Minnie
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over 4 years ago
Juul Is Getting Sued by the FTC
Image : GettyE- cigarette manufacturer Juul was no favorite of regulators before selling a hefty chunk of itself to tobacco giant Altria Group , owing mainly to its uncertain health risks and penchant for marketing to kids. But that 2018 transaction has put Juul in the cr...continued
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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
A Brief History of the Census—and How Covid-19 Could Change It
The United States is currently undertaking its population census, the once-a-decade effort to count every single person living here. More than 150 other countries will join in this world census round—the 10-year period centered on 2020, and around 90 percent of the world’...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elody
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over 4 years ago
Ikea acquires AI imaging startup Geomagical Labs to supercharge room visualisations
Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings and decor giant, has been one of the leaders among retailers when it comes to adapting to tech innovations that impact its business, being one of the first to launch augmented reality applications, partnering with others to develop smart...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Assunta
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over 4 years ago
How to value a startup in a downturn
The value of technology companies has fallen as the broader public markets have repriced themselves in light of COVID-19-related market and economic disruptions.And as the public markets sort out the new value of a huge piece of global business, private companies are bein...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Bobby
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over 4 years ago
Coronavirus: LA county gun shops to reopen as 'essential' business
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Customers queue outside a LA county gun shopLos Angeles County is reopening gun shops to the public after a federal memo listed them as "essential" businesses.Sheriff Alex Villanueva closed shops last week, but reversed course on...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Assunta
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over 4 years ago
The Cargo Industry’s Quest to Curb Carbon-Belching Ships
Stefan eefting is, as he puts it, “a long-lasting guy” in the shipping industry. He started as an apprentice engineer in a German shipyard in 1984, and now he's a senior vice president at MAN Energy Solutions, a firm whose engines power every second vessel on the deep sea...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Iva
@Iva -
over 4 years ago
AMICUS Training Tips Series: How to Use Interval Training in Table Tennis with Richard Prause
April 1, 2020 This video series originally appeared in 2018. The content remains pertinent today – and the tips may assist many of you looking to use your social distancing time to improve your game. While the video series was designed for the AMICUS Robot, the t...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Roger
@Roger -
over 4 years ago
Trish Regan, who called coronavirus an 'impeachment scam,' leaves Fox Business
Fox Business has parted ways with host Trish Regan, who was heavily criticized earlier this month for calling coronavirus an "impeachment hoax" against Donald Trump.The network announced its decision on Friday. "Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan — we thank her...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Alexie
@Alexie -
over 4 years ago
Apple fined record $1.2B in France over anti-competitive sales practices
The wheels of the regulatory machine continue to turn, and today Apple, along with two of its wholesale partners, was dealt a major blow in France over antitrust violations. It received the largest fine ever leveled against a business over anti-competitive practices and “...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Clarissa
@Clarissa -
over 4 years ago
TuSimple partners with supplier ZF to mass produce self-driving truck tech
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple is partnering with automotive supplier ZF to develop and produce autonomous vehicle technology, such as sensors, on a commercial scale.The partnership, slated to begin in April, will cover China, Europe and North America. The two compan...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hank
@Hank -
over 4 years ago
Why Congress isn’t working remotely due to COVID-19
As COVID-19 forces much of America to work from home, the United States Congress — whose 535 members have an average age of 60 — is still operating from Capitol Hill.Why this population (deemed high-risk to the coronavirus) isn’t yet doing legislative business remotely co...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Immanuel
@Immanuel -
over 4 years ago
Now Is the Time to Partner With Your Customers
Peer marketing in this climate of global disruption.March 25, 2020 5 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Essentially overnight, a huge proportion of the advertising industry’s inventory has simply evaporated. Like a solar eclipse, COVID-1...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Erik
@Erik -
over 4 years ago
Helm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI
Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous vehicle technology thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning.Now, Helm.ai, the startup he co-founded in 2016 with Tudor Achim, is coming out ...continued
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Nelson upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Alexandro
@Alexandro -
over 4 years ago
While Many Restaurants Struggle, Here's How One Is Thriving
Driving through eerily quiet Seattle on Friday, I tuned into an NPR interview in which a Dallas taco shop owner summed up the outlook for the country's restaurants in the face of the coronavirus pandemic: "Bleak." It’s a widely echoed sentiment. Making the rush-hour trip ...continued
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