In 2007, Justin Kan did something that had people shaking their heads. He strapped a webcam to his baseball cap, connected it to a laptop in his backpack, and began live-streaming his life. Every moment—yes, even bathroom breaks—was broadcast to […]

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Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results. Many queries no longer lead to click-throughs, and even when users click, it is hard for companies to get more context on searches made within apps like ChatGPT or Perplexity. The answer to this problem […]

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In the U.S. it’s common for companies that have both physical branches and online services to use customer relationship management (CRM) software that tracks all of their interactions with customers in one place. In LatAm that isn’t the case, though, as many enterprises and banks keep the data from physical locations siloed from its digital […]

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With the startup failure rate at an all-time high, having the right product-market fit is one of the many ways to boost your chances of success as a founder. Aligning your product with market demand is a crucial step toward […]

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When Alex Hawkinson was the CEO of SmartThings, the consumer-focused connected devices company he co-founded and sold to Samsung for around $200 million, he kept thinking that Internet of Things (IoT) technology could probably solve bigger issues. He left SmartThings in 2018 to figure out where connected devices could make the largest impact. He co-founded […]

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