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Roomba or self-propelled trench diggers are the robots that might construct your home. Self-propelled trench diggers are Drones that can simulate structures in 3D. Roomba-like machines that draw the placement of each floor beam.  As houses, offices, and industrial sites rise across the nation, the construction site of the future is already here. At a time when the construction industry is going through a lot of change, robots can lay bricks, hang plasterboard, and tie rebar are helping out. Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the…

Never rely on external resources to do your fundraising for you Occasionally, in my role as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot like sales, and if you have a good salesperson, why not let them do what they do best? The issue is that…

We’re excited to announce two more early-stage startups participating in the Cross Chain Coalition Web3 Demo Day on January 11. If you haven’t heard, this free online showcase features more than 12 of today’s most exciting projects building web3 infrastructure, DeFi, NFT and gaming applications. Register today and join us as each startup team gets five minutes to pitch to judges in the audience, who include influential founders and many of the top investors in blockchain. We’re talking about…

The Dodgers are looking for another starting pitcher.And on Monday, they talked with one of the biggest names on the market.Justin Verlander had a meeting with the Dodgers, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, marking the team’s latest effort to woo the free-agent superstar and bolster its rotation.With Walker Buehler likely to miss all of next year following Tommy John surgery, the starting rotation remains one of the Dodgers’ top priorities this winter.“In an…

We’ve seen Drew Barrymore take on a number of different roles that have shaped her into the great actress she is today. She’s really come a long way since her early role as the precious 7-year-old Gertie in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial which has ranged over the years from cute and sexy to kick-ass roles. While talking about her best movies, this actress/talk show host spoke about pitching The Wedding Singer to Adam Sandler and why being a part of Charlie’s Angels felt like a breath of fresh air.Drew Barrymore really knows…

Three-dimensional simplicity: data, technology and people… and a tool to help along the wayImage by Alexandre AllouinIn a previous article, I advocated a simple way to communicate with executives or non-techies by illustrating any data initiative — from transforming your organization into a data-driven entity to developing a new data project — with just three dimensions: data, technology and people (“3D data story”) because, at the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about!“Life is really simple, but we insist on making…

Investors don't care about your product. Not really. Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How good is the founder-market fit? Is it venture-scale? It’s natural for founders to live and breathe for their customers and product, but the dirty little secret of fundraising is that your investors are extraordinarily unlikely to care about your product. And they have a few legitimate reasons for being that way. I…

My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. “My 2 cents on why you should invest in my company,” reads the message she received, along with a $0.02 transfer. I tracked down and emailed the founder who sent the transfer to figure out what they were up to. “In the past two and a half weeks I’ve reached out to over a hundred VCs, angels, celebrities, athletes and influencers through Venmo,” says Chip Herndon, CEO and co-founder…

The first pitching machine dates back well over 100 years. Obviously things have come a long way since that injury-inducing, gunpowder-fueled machine made its debut at Princeton University, but most modern systems are more or less the same. A ball is manually or mechanically dropped into a spinning wheel or wheels, which propel it toward the battery at high velocity. It’s gotten the job done, so why quibble, right? But there’s a lot of potential room for innovation here. Advances in AI, stat tracking, advanced…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study offers entrepreneurs some savvy sales advice: When pitching to investors for funding, a high-octane product pitch with great enthusiasm can be a double-edged sword. …