Key Takeaways Define Your Business Idea: Clearly articulate your business idea to address market needs and target your audience effectively, laying a solid foundation for your plans. Conduct Thorough Market Research: Understand your audience and competitors through market research to refine your business model and differentiate your brand. Create a Comprehensive Business Plan: Develop a…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Picture this: You give an artificial intelligence complete control over a small shop. Not just the cash register — the whole operation. Pricing, inventory, customer service, supplier negotiations, the…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Editor’s note: Kumo AI was one of the finalists at VB Transform during our annual innovation showcase and presented RFM from the mainstage at VB Transform on Wednesday. The…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The No. 1 way AI is changing 150-year-old energy giant Chevron? How technical practitioners engage with data.  Offshore in the Gulf, Chevron is drilling for oil resources miles below…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems.  At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business.…

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Most start-ups fail within 5 years. Many more are the “walking dead”- they are only doing well enough to stay in business but not making the founder any money. This week on The Small Business Radio Show, I talked with  Rich Hagberg, PhD—Silicon Valley’s “CEO Whisperer” and explored the core reasons founders fail and what…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now It’s been a little more than a month since Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, an offshoot of Hong Kong-based High-Flyer Capital Management, released the latest version of its hit open…

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Bright Data, the Israeli web scraping company that defeated both Meta and Elon Musk’s X in federal court, unveiled a comprehensive AI infrastructure suite Wednesday designed to give artificial…