🚀 Venture Capital - Free Online Course
This article announces a free online course on venture capital fundraising skills. The course begins March 6th, 2025.
Key Points:
• Free course on venture capital fundraising.
• 50,000+ entrepreneurs already enrolled.
• Course starts March 6th, 2025.
🔗 Resources:
• Venture Deals Course ↗ - Free online course
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💡 BC Tech - Insights from Josh Nilson
This article highlights insights from Josh Nilson, BC Tech Hall of Fame inductee, regarding technology's role in British Columbia's future.
Key Points:
• Tech's critical role in BC's future.
• Insights from Josh Nilson of Maskwa Investments.
• Invitation to join BC Tech.
🔗 Resources:
• Join BC Tech ↗ - Join the BC Tech community
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🤖 Venture Capital Mentoring - Call for Mentors
This article is a call for senior-level VCs, especially in life sciences, to mentor scholarship recipients.
Key Points:
• One hour per month commitment (April-June).
• Support for Cohort 18 scholarship recipients.
• 96% of past mentors would mentor again.
🚀 Venture Capital - Silicon Valley Info Session
This article announces an information session and Q&A about Silicon Valley venture capital. On-demand access is available for those unable to attend live.
Key Points:
• Info session and Q&A on Silicon Valley VC.
• February 25th, 8 AM PST.
• On-demand access to recording available.
🔗 Resources:
• VC Unlocked Event ↗ - Silicon Valley VC info session
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🤖 AI Support Engineering - RunLLM Public Beta
This article announces the public beta launch of RunLLM, an AI support engineer.
Key Points:
• Saves support engineering time.
• Accelerates customer adoption.
• Generates customer and product insights.
💡 Sales Strategy - Customer Retention
This article shares a story about a critical customer retention situation highlighting the importance of understanding customer needs.
Key Points:
• A large customer threatened to drastically reduce spending.
• This resulted in a significant stock price drop.
• Prioritizing customer relationships is crucial.
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🤖 AI and Enterprise Software - Disruption
This article discusses how AI agents are changing enterprise software and labor spending.
Key Points:
• AI agents target the large labor cost market.
• Focus shifts from software cost to labor cost savings.
• Rethinking enterprise software assumptions.
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🚀 Microbiology Testing - Spore Bio Funding
This article announces Spore Bio's Series A funding round to revolutionize microbiology testing in the food industry.
Key Points:
• Spore Bio raised $23M in Series A funding.
• Funding will revolutionize food industry microbiology testing.
• LocalGlobeVC participated in the funding round.
💡 Community Innovation - Edge City
This article discusses the creation of Edge City as a society incubator and the challenges of tech's rapid evolution.
Key Points:
• Tech's evolution outpaces institutional innovation.
• Edge City acts as a society incubator.
• Discussion on community dynamism and invisible protocols.
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💡 Economic Uncertainty - Tariff Impacts
This article summarizes concerns about the impact of tariffs and economic uncertainty on business planning.
Key Points:
• Tariff threats cause significant disruption.
• Inflation and tariffs create planning difficulties.
• Uncertainty around interest rates and tariffs is prevalent.
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