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Global VC fundingreached $143.9 billionin the first quarter of 2022 down 19% from the previous quarter. With the current dip instartupvaluation, they find it risky to provide seed funding to emerging companies. The big advantage of angel investments is that financing is much less risky than debt financing. Unlike a loan, invested capital doest have to be paid back in the event of business failure. And most angel investors understand business, and therefore take a long-term view....

During her talk, Niemi shared two key findings from the latest research conducted by the organization. The study surveyed over 300 CPO participants from a variety of industries and company sizes. How do CPOs think about their role and whats their function? This depends on the key in of company theyre working for. CPOs who come from digital native companies such as fintech and SaaS tend to be zeroed-in on product growth....

Navigating Silicon Valley can be a daunting task for any entrepreneur. Andqueerfounders face an even greater uphill challenge. 40% off TNW Conference! The conversation around diversity in STEM is far too often focused solely on semantics and metrics. But diversity and inclusion start at the top. Thats why we need more queer founders, CEOs, and executives. According to Benson, that begins by understanding the reality of the situation. While she gave several tips at the conference making it another cant miss talk!...

If a company wants to offer great products and services, its important to hire the smartest people. Thats even more true if your companys products are used by literal billions of people around the planet. Its a matter Maxine Williams, Chief Diversity Officer atMeta, is intimately familiar with. What follows is a transcript of that exchange, lightly edited for clarity. 40% off TNW Conference! Maxine Williams:The most successful businesses are diverse so its a business imperative, full stop....

How do you set yourself apart from other brands? How do you sell people on a product theyre not used to? And how do you do all that without a marketing department? John Schoolcraft, Global Chief Creative Director atOatly, has an answer. Why kill the marketing department? Were not just a company with a logo. 40% off TNW Conference! He believed that a typical structure including both a marketing and a commercial department wouldnt work....

And how you may ask? Why, via hologram of course. Fast-forward 45 years and the reality has gone much further than what George Lucas had dreamt up in 1977. At TNWs Vision Stage, Zelenskys hologram appeared via a two meter tall touch screen displayfacilitatedby ARHT media. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Holograms, a new hope? First of all, tech is the overarching theme bringing these diverse audiences together....

Remind me how you make hydrogen? 40% off TNW Conference! Then,energyproviders can use waste heat from the H2-Industries process to generate power with steam turbines and generators. This means that the power plant can dispose of four million tonnes of municipal solid waste annually. Importantly, one of the big wins for evolving green hydrogen is cost. Price is traditionally a massive barrier in advancing green hydrogen innovation. Its fair to say that green hydrogeninnovation is concentrated currently in research and development than in commercial use cases....

Thats about solar panels, ditching meat, flying less, and driving an electric car, right? Absolutely, but thats only half the story. For a lot of product designers,sustainabilityis becoming the key focus of their creative process. The good news: breakthroughs are already being made everyday! Future Talks: Sustainable Materials 40% off TNW Conference! He uses it both when designing individual buildings, as well as on the city-scale. The most obvious example of this is having plants in your home....

Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should eer surpass our art. We are the masters, them the slaves, And thus it ever shall be so! They learn, tis true, but they learn Only what we bid them learn, no more. They cannot understand the heart Or beauty of our words, you see. But it is something almost as far out: an AI system trained to express itself like the bard....

Many of us want to be part of a greater vision to make the world a better place. It also found that the past seven years have been the highest on record. And for many more open roles,check out the House of Talent Job Board. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) 40% off TNW Conference! Theyll also develop a business plan for the companys climate offering with clear success metrics. This helps teams to spot opportunities to position themselves with optimal green technology solutions....

Lemoines bosses at Google disagree, and havesuspended himfrom work after he publishedhis conversations with the machineonline. What is consciousness? The debate over these questions has been going for centuries. The fundamental difficulty is understanding the relationship between physical phenomena and our mental representation of those phenomena. This is what Australian philosopherDavid Chalmershas called the hard problem of consciousness. There is no consensus on how, if at all, consciousness can arise from physical systems....

The idea ofEVwireless charging while on the road is gradually gaining traction and not without a reason. Whats Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer? DWPT is basically a system of coils placed under the asphalt. Stellantis pilot project 40% off TNW Conference! And thats absolutely right. Charging while driving would eliminate these concerns. Nevertheless, the implementation of DWPT tech wont come easy. Were looking at huge infrastructural changes and very heavy funding to make that happen at best within a decade....

As is always the case, the is it alive? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The burden of proof should be on the people making the claims. But what should that proof look like? If a chatbot says Im sentient, who gets to decide if it really is or not? google engineer: are you sure you’re sentient? We can actually use some extremely basic critical thinking to sort it out for ourselves....