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☆ Here's an exclusive look at the 20-slide pitch deck generative AI startup Regie.ai used to raise $6 million from OpenAI-backer Khosla Ventures
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Regie.ai is a generative AI startup that automates content creation and management for sales teams. Check out the 20-slide deck that landed Regie $6 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures. Together, the two founded Regie.ai, a generative AI startup that automates content creation and management for sales teams. Regie signed its term sheet with Khosla Ventures in October 2022, as excitement around generative AI started to pick up, Sridhar said. Here's an exclusive look at the 20-slide pitch deck Regie.ai used to raise $6 million in Series A funding from Open-AI backer Khosla Ventures:
☆ Investing in Space: Looking up in 2023
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Michael Sheetz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
CNBC's Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. After ending on a bit of a downer ("A year to forget for space stocks"), I'm entering 2023 with what feels like contrarian optimism. The space industry is chock full of opportunities and milestones to look forward to over the next twelve months, as the market for 21st century space companies continues to evolve and mature. Here are the top three space business news items I'm watching for and, shocker, all three are about getting to orbit. Space companies that are beyond the development phase and are expanding could distinguish themselves with investors as a discounted opportunity in a shifting market.
☆ 9 ways creators are building new income streams as they prepare for a potential recession
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Marta Biino | Amanda Perelli | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
With a shaky economy, some brands have reduced or cut sponsored content deals with creators. "That was definitely a bummer," Williams told Insider. "I think people are wanting to try things before they go all in with larger investments," Samuel told Insider. Taking on speaking engagementsThree creators told Insider that speaking engagements, in-person and virtual, have been a growing income stream for them. "You need to understand where you're spending money," Reed Duchscher, CEO of management company Night, previously told Insider.
☆ A PE firm that's built its brand on high-profile sports deals is broadening its scope
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
But one firm that's already well established in the space is looking to quietly diversify itself beyond the pitch. With seemingly everyone interested in sports these days, Cardinale is smart to want to hedge his firm. The crypto exchange also agreed to pay $50 million to improve how it vets customers and transactions. Mala Gaonkar's hedge fund just made its long-awaited debut. SurgoCap Partners entered the fray this week with $1.8 billion in capital, making it the biggest launch of a women-led hedge fund, Bloomberg reports.
☆ How to make money as a content creator, according to dozens of influencers
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Content creators can earn money in many ways. In the past few years, earning money as a content creator and building an influencer career have become more accessible. Here are 11 common ways influencers earn money, based on conversations with dozens of industry insiders. For example, Aisha Beau Frisbey, a full-time lifestyle content creator with 36,000 Instagram followers, recently launched a deck of affirmation cards. Platform creator funds and bonusesSeveral platforms offers bonuses or "creator funds" that pay influencers money for the views they receive on their content, primarily short-form videos.
☆ Toxic coworkers fall into 4 categories — here's how to deal with each one
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Jonathan Small | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
NYU psychology professor Tessa West said there are 4 common types of toxic coworkers. In her book, "Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them," NYU psychology professor Tessa West lays out some of the most common archetypes of toxic coworkers and then offers strategies for confronting them and taking back your peace of mind. They go to the boss' boss," West said. The gaslighterPerhaps the most sinister of toxic coworkers, the gaslighter, deceives you on a grand scale — often by creating an alternative reality. People unknowingly gaslit may perpetuate or protect their toxic coworker's dishonesty or theft at work.
☆ 9 strategies creators are using to diversify their incomes as they prepare for a potential recession
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Marta Biino | Amanda Perelli | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
With a shaky economy, some brands have reduced or cut sponsored content deals with creators. "That was definitely a bummer," Williams told Insider. "I think people are wanting to try things before they go all in with larger investments," Samuel told Insider. Taking on speaking engagementsThree creators told Insider that speaking engagements, in-person and virtual, have been a growing income stream for them. "You need to understand where you're spending money," Reed Duchscher, CEO of management company Night, previously told Insider.
☆ Creators outside of the US feel frustrated after being shut out of ways to make money on Instagram and TikTok
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Like many creator funds and bonus programs, TikTok Pulse is only available in the US. TikTok followed suit in October with the rollout of TikTok Pulse, a program to share ad revenue with creators. Like other creators, Downer, who makes short-form videos primarily on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, was excited to hear the news. TikTok Pulse, like many other bonus programs and creator funds, is only available to US users. Creator funds and bonuses would provide peace of mind in a tough economyIt's been "very irritating" to not have access to the majority of creator funds, said Mia Wells, a UK-based fashion creator on TikTok and Instagram.
☆ 'Truth serum' drugs do exist. Here's how medicines like sodium pentothal and scopolamine manipulate the brain.
  + stars: | 2014-10-10 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Numerous accounts and scientific reports suggest that you're more prone to tell the truth under the effects of truth serum drugs, but the drugs have other side effects. Furthermore, not only are truth serum drugs not all that useful, they are illegal under certain circumstances including interrogation. ScopolamineZchanguScopolamine was first promoted by Dr. Robert House as a truth serum in the early 20th century, and was the first drug to adopt the name "truth serum." A truth serum experimentThe best way to find out if truth serum works is to experience it for yourself, which is exactly what TV journalist Michael Mosley did. To investigate sodium thiopental, one of the more popular truth serum drugs, Mosley took two different doses of the drug.
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