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Generative AI sparks family business renaissance: PwC report

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The hardest part of digital transformation is changing the culture of the business to align with new challenges — and that’s even more difficult in a family-owned and operated enterprise,” Enrique Hinojosa, a fourth-generation leader of a family-owned business, Welldex Logistics in Mexico, was quoted in the report as saying.

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After the acquisition: 3 startup founders share their exit experiences

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If being acquired means losing the brand and identity you have worked so hard to build — or perhaps worse, losing your cultural identity — it probably will suck. His startup was a member of the YC Winter 2011 cohort, and was sold to Rackspace a year later. The last company, a 72-year-old operation, was the exception.

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Australian startup Pyn raises $8M seed to bring targeted communication in-house

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His co-founder Jon Williams was previously a co-founder at Culture Amp, an employee experience management platform he helped launch in 2011 (and which raised more than $150 million), so the two of them have been immersed in this idea. In a nutshell, we radically personalize employee communications,” Luijke explained.

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

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In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. “The [web3] culture doesn’t appeal to me.

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Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

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A successful entrepreneur and chairman of HartBeat, a global, multiplatform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture, Hart’s on a mission to keep the world laughing together. In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck

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That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. “He was a part of an organization that was helping to bring more diverse founders in touch with investors,” says Nichols. Fast forward to 2016.

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