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Onfleet nabs $23M to further develop its last-mile delivery software

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Khaled Naim said that the new capital will be put toward product development, expanding Onfleet’s product and engineering capabilities, and enhancing the company’s enterprise offering. It’s then when he, Cavia, and Vetrano decided to expand their vision to develop a delivery management platform: Onfleet.

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Nigerian e-health pharmaceutical distribution startup DrugStoc secures $4.4 million Series A funding, embarks on expansion drive

TechCrunch

Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, being all too familiar with the problems of poor pharmaceutical supply chains, are planning to widen the reach of DrugStoc, a e-health drug procurement platform that eliminates these challenges by linking drug companies with institutions such as hospitals and pharmacies, in Nigeria.

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2015 Leadership Predictions:

The Empowered Buisness

Below are my 2015 leadership predictions – threats, trends and opportunities – that will change the world of leadership as we know it today. They must develop a continuous pipeline of potential leaders and groom early before undertaking those roles. Are you aware of how leadership is evolving to respond to those trends?

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Mutiny, which personalizes website copy and headlines using AI, raises $50M

TechCrunch

A report from ecommerce analytics platform Glew drives the point home: In 2015, 75% of retailers that spent at least $5,000 on Facebook ads ended up losing money on those ads, with the average return on investment landing around -66.7%. Advertising, particularly online advertising, isn’t a surefire way to bolster business.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few. So it’s a train ride down to get access to any big decision maker,” he said.

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The Rise of Unstructured Data

Cloudera

For example, the number of hyperscale centres is reported to have doubled between 2015 and 2020. It facilitates AI because, to be useful, many AI models require large amounts of data for training. This challenges AI practitioners because they need to develop ways to decrease the need for human annotations. And data moves around.

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