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Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs

TechCrunch

After years of outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing to countries with cheaper labor and bigger production ecosystems, the U.S. and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Today, a startup that believes it can help with that shift is announcing some funding. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 million).

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Switching to Go – First Impressions

Henrik Warne

A few months ago I switched to working in Go. Before that, my main language was Python for many years. The change to Go has been very smooth, without any major surprises or stumbling blocks. This may partly be because in the past I have also worked in both C++ and Java. Even so, Go (the parts I have used so far) is quite straightforward. Before I started in my new role, I read through The Go Programming Language , which is quite good.

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Fintech giants face uphill battle

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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CIO Leadership Live with Germin Abouel Atta, CIO, The British University in Egypt

CIO

Watch the episode: Listen to the episode: CIO Leadership Live.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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There are a lot of reasons to be excited about Canada’s venture market

TechCrunch

Canada’s venture market isn’t immune from the global market downturn, but unlike the U.S. — where everything seems increasingly bleak — there are quite a few bright spots in Canada’s ecosystem this year. Data from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association ( CVCA ) found that C$7.2 billion ($5.28 billion) was invested across 520 deals in the country through the third quarter of this year.

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The one slide 99% of founders get wrong when fundraising

TechCrunch

There’s one slide that almost every founder gets wrong when they are putting together a pitch deck to raise money from venture capitalists. The slide is usually known as “the ask,” and it typically lives toward the end of the pitch deck. It is meant to do something pretty straightforward: Explain how much money a startup is raising and for what.

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Five Features Your Enterprise Network Needs in 2023

Megaport

In 2022, Megaport published the Forrester 2022 Cloud Connectivity Buyer’s Guide, a comprehensive assessment of enterprise cloud connectivity needs. Commissioned by Megaport and using findings by Forrester Consulting, the guide aims to provide operational insights for IT decision-makers to evaluate their enterprise cloud connectivity choices and advise when it makes sense to use software-defined.

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Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions 

TechCrunch

For companies aiming toward net zero, tracking scope 3 carbon emissions is a key challenge. Scope 3 are emissions along a supply and value chain, which means they have to account for a large number of partners. Avarni automates much of the process and says it can cut down the amount of time spent on carbon reporting from months to minutes. The Sydney, Australia-based startup announced today it has raised $3 million for its carbon management platform.

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Five Features Your Enterprise Network Needs in 2023

Megaport

In 2022, Megaport published the Forrester 2022 Cloud Connectivity Buyer’s Guide, a comprehensive assessment of enterprise cloud connectivity needs. Commissioned by Megaport and using findings by Forrester Consulting, the guide aims to provide operational insights for IT decision-makers to evaluate their enterprise cloud connectivity choices and advise when it makes sense to use software-defined.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Inside Nearshoring: Ukrainian Developers vs World

Mobilunity

A short (longer than usually though) cut from last year’s Inside Nearshoring Online Show episode where my guest, Ihor Pysmennyi, PhD reflects about myths on Ukrainian devs comparison to else nation. Had good 7 minutes now re-watching the past – and you know what, we are still there in many aspects of what Ihor was mentioning back then.

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Creating an Effective Marketing Plan for Your Startup

Strategy Driven

When you are launching or running a startup business, you need to utilize marketing as much as possible. If you are going to get your name, business, and brand out there and seen by your customers, you will need to place high importance on your marketing efforts. Ensuring that you get the results is made easier by having an effective plan. So, just what should this marketing plan include?

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Every Business Needs Professional Photos, Here Is Why

Strategy Driven

Everyone loves a stock photo – they are easy, relatively cheap or free, and can illustrate a point well. But, the same images appear across multiple websites, and over time your business is blended in with the rest of them – even if you are better. Often, new businesses will focus on putting their money in other areas, assuming that so long as they have some photos, that is enough when your images can be your differentiator in reality.

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Construction Site Security and Traffic Management: Why Is It Important?

Strategy Driven

Construction sites and projects pose high risks for workers and people around them. The risk is even higher for construction workers and personnel, facing various safety hazards during operations. Therefore, necessary action, security, and safety must be provided within and outside the construction site. Moreover, it is well–known that construction sites are busy places, given that construction vehicles like frontloaders, cranes, and the like, are necessary to complete a project.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How To Reduce The Risk Of FX Trading

Strategy Driven

Economies around the world are currently struggling due to various impacts, as countries across the globe suffer a knock-on effect from the global pandemic and other socioeconomic factors like war and the rising cost of living. More of us will be looking to increase our income throughout this difficult time, and thankfully, because the FX market is not tied to an economy, it has not been impacted as much as you might expect.

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Gaining New Ground: How We Can Analyze Our Data Better

Strategy Driven

When it comes to boosting our business profile, a lot of people make the mistake of getting the right tools and thinking this is enough. Whenever we implement a process, the critical aspect of the tools is about ensuring we analyze the information that comes back to us. Analyzing your data is invaluable to companies of all shapes and sizes, and this is why you need to learn how to analyze your data better.

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4 Ways To Ensure Building A Business Is Easy

Strategy Driven

Are you thinking about setting up a new business ? This is easier than ever to do, however there’s no guarantee that a company like this will be successful. That’s why you should be exploring the right steps to take to ensure that growing your business is simple. Here are some of the options we recommend you explore. Invest In A Franchise. First, you might want to think about investing in a franchise.

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The Many Tasks of a Marketing Manager

Strategy Driven

As a marketing manager, you have a lot of responsibilities on your plate. You are in charge of creating and executing marketing plans, overseeing campaigns, developing and managing budgets, and more. It can be a lot to handle, but it’s also very rewarding. In this blog post, we will take an in-depth look at the many tasks that marketing managers are responsible for.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Tips To Declutter & Organize Your Factory Floor This New Year

Strategy Driven

The New Year is an apt time to declutter and organize but think beyond your home and mental space. Your workspace also deserves a purge-and-refresh job, so now is the time to plan it. While office spaces get it often, factory owners tend to go slack with such projects because industrial facilities are inherently messy. But a cleaning spree can drive immense benefits for industrial plants, from employee productivity to efficiency, safety, and well-being.