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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

CIO

Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

CIO

Startup” means risk. Cisco sets aside space for an innovative team operating with a startup mindset. More than an experimental group, they hold themselves accountable the same way any startup should. Like any startup, delivering on expectations is job one. Why not both? The alternative is shuttering for good.

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Your Generative AI strategy could use a startup’s touch

CIO

Consequently, organizations are seeking first-mover or at least fast-follower advantages—not unlike startup businesses looking to disrupt industries. Your GenAI strategy playbook Startups, of course, move quickly because their ability to be nimble and strategic determines their long-term viability. Be strategic (of course).

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India’s advisory on LLM usage causes consternation

CIO

Numerous IT vendors are likely to be affected by the advisory, including cloud service providers such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and IBM; software vendors such as Databricks and Salesforce; model service providers (mostly startups) such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Cohere, along with social platforms such as Meta.

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IT Hardware Startups Turn to Data Analytics for Market Research

Smart Data Collective

The IT landscape, on the other hand, is intensely competitive, with growing technology and fast-changing client demands. Startups require a solid foundation founded on extensive market research to flourish in this volatile climate. Analyze your competition thoroughly, including established firms and rising entrepreneurs.

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How to use LinkedIn for Competitive Intelligence

Aqute Intelligence

Competitive intelligence analysis helps businesses maintain or gain a strategic market advantage. LinkedIn, with its network of over 750 million users worldwide, is an indispensable competitive intelligence tool, and no competitive intelligence research is complete without it.

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Securing Venture Capital for Your New Cloud Startup

Smart Data Collective

Are you trying to grow or launch a cloud technology startup? Recent news reports on Infracost can give you some insights on the cost of launching a cloud startup. There are a lot of advantages of VC funding for technology startups. Getting Venture Capital for Your Cloud Startup. This company raised over $2.2

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