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How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals

TechCrunch

.” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. After six months of incubation, the firm invests in the teams they can help further. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here are some statistics from a few notable companies that have disclosed their success rates publicly: Microsoft declared that roughly one-third of their ideas yield negative results, one-third yield no results, and one-third yield positive results (Kohavi and Thomke, 2017). Google reported that as much as 96.1%

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The Future of Security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

With the rise of ransomware, firms have become more aware of their ability to recover from an attack if they are targeted, but security needs also continue to evolve as new technologies, apps, and devices are developed faster than ever before. What does the future have in store for cybersecurity?

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Executive Round Table with Kent Barner and Jay Reed

TechFides Blog

Participant Profiles Kent Barner – CIO Suite Kent is the Founder/CEO of CIO Suite located in Dallas, TX, which was formed in January 2017. At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. And then lastly, G.S.D.,

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

Already this year, there are numerous smaller M&A deals, as enterprise software providers buy their way into new markets or acquire new capabilities rather than develop them in house. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet.