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Can a Hackathon Revitalize the Real Estate Industry?

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Popular companies like Airbnb and Uber have revolutionized their respective industries and made the big firms think about how they do business. Strangely enough, real estate hasn't seen its innovation moment yet.

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Podcast S5E104: Adii Pienaar – Building Life Profitability

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with South African serial entrepreneur Adii Pienaar about Life Profitability. After starting and selling several successful businesses, including the company which went on to become WooCommerce, Adii asked himself why he wasn’t feeling fulfilled. In his new book, he talks about his own experiences defining and finding Life Profitability.

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Discovery Sprint: A Free 12-week program for Startups

Strategyzer Innovation

If you are an ambitious and early-stage startup, with a dedicated team, a promising idea and the hopes of finding a scalable business model, this post is for you!

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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Take an 8-Hour Shower Each Week: The Benefits of Creative Time

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Scheduling entrepreneurial creative time is important. Take some time to stop running your business, and focus on generating new ideas.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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6 Ways to Innovate Your Business Model 

InnovationManagement

The pandemic has given us all an opportunity to build a new business future. Market disruption equals opportunity for those willing to look and work for it. This is the time to adjust and innovate your business model to market conditions. . The post 6 Ways to Innovate Your Business Model appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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#2,152 – 2021 Trends Report

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I’ve always wanted to come up with a trends report similar to the famous Internet trends report put out annually by Mary Meeker but I never got around to it. If I had I’m sure I would have mentioned The Cloud, Self-driving Cars, 3-D Printing, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Drones, and all the rest of the transformative technologies that have been debuting in recent years.

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little progress is good, big progress is better

helloFUTURE

Lately, many books have been released about how the only way to create lasting change is to move in tiny increments. I beg to differ. Books like Tiny Habits espouse the currently trendy movement which pushes this theory – which is that you can change, but the best way to change is slowly, over time,… The post little progress is good, big progress is better appeared first on hellofuture.

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Your 1-minute guide to the most impactful innovation model

Peer Insight

Venture Studios – including our own PX Ventures – are creating enhanced impact for clients with this unique model (read more about that here ). It’s a full-service entrepreneurship solution in a box (or ventures-as-a-service), where an experienced venture team works at a sprint pace, while the core business functions as a VC. Essentially, studios help large enterprises compete with startups by becoming a startup.

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Podcast E17: Surface vs Deep Structure and Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

In today’s episode, we explore how concepts from linguistics can impact innovation. In particular, we dive into the distinction between surface structure and deep structure. Understanding these concepts will help you be better at strategic alignment , innovation , and problem-solving. We first define surface structure (the words used to convey a meaning) and deep structure (the actual meaning).

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The 5 Business Model Validation Tricks That Corporations Don’t Know

Peer Insight

Corporate innovation teams are problem-solvers, but often we only solve half the problem. Why build the thing without validating someone will pay for the thing? Here are 5 business model validation tricks, borrowed from startups, that work equally well for scaled enterprises. THE OLDEN DAYS: A FREE POC. There’s no free lunch, so why should there be a free proof-of-concept (POC)?

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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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#2,150 – Tesla’s Thought Camera

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The other day when reading my new favorite book, Mind Hacking , I learned something new that I never knew before. That famed inventor Nikola Tesla once came up with plans to invent something that was decades ahead of his time: a thought camera. What exactly is a thought camera?! History explains: “Tesla believed it could be possible to photograph thoughts.

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You, AI, & Facial Recognition:

Linda Bernardi

One major use of AI in industry is Image Recognition. Many are working on ways of using facial & other image recognition to improve operations, sales, & revenue. I hope many are also working on using image and facial recognition to improve customer experience & to create ‘fantastic’ online or in-store shopping experiences. For example, two possible Image Recognition and AI situations: Retail: What if when you enter a store (if you’ve opted in), your image is instantly recognized, you

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#2,151 – Spirulina Algae

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Israel, quickly become one of the world’s most innovative hotspots, is at it again with yet another scientific breakthrough. This time realizing that Spirulina Algae has healing properties that could help prevent COVID deaths. According to the Jerusalem Post : “A team of scientists from Israel and Iceland have published research showing that an extract of spirulina algae has the potential to reduce the chances of COVID-19 patients developing a serious case of the disease.

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