Ted Roduner, Author at Microsoft for Startups Blog

Fueling your startup: why fundraising and investment readiness matter

Ted Roduner — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:27:04 +0000

Startups are the lifeblood of the economy. They drive innovation, create jobs, and fuel economic growth. But starting a business is hard, and it takes more than just a great idea to succeed. Fundraising provides the essential capital needed to fuel growth, hire talent, and develop innovative products or services. Investment readiness, on the other...

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Perplexity powers its ‘answer engine’ with Azure OpenAI Service

Ted Roduner — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:06:50 +0000

This is part of our #LaunchWithAI series. Interested in sharing your story? Contact us here! The rapid integration of generative AI tools like ChatGPT into our lives has been breathtaking. Every day, there are meaningful advancements in how large language models (LLMs) are assisting users with research, content creation, and more. Now the question is,...

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Commerce.AI extracts value from unstructured data with Azure OpenAI Service

Ted Roduner — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:50:07 +0000

This is part of our #LaunchWithAI series. Interested in sharing your story? Contact us here! One of the biggest challenges that AI researchers and developers face is in leveraging unstructured data. Unlike structured data, which is organized and easily searchable, unstructured data doesn’t have a pre-defined model or organizational system and is often difficult to...

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Breakthru founder Melissa Painter: Expanding well-being in a distributed world with Microsoft Teams

Ted Roduner — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:00:45 +0000

The immersive well-being app that’s helping remote teams feel more centered, energized, and connected to their minds and bodies Melissa Painter: A diverse palette of work and experience Like most startups, Breakthru’s path was marked by unexpected twists and pivots. Designed to be a fully immersive experience for users that combined motion capture, gamification, and...

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Co-founder and CEO Melody Meckfessel on how Observable is democratizing data visualization and harnessing the power of collaboration in Microsoft Teams

Ted Roduner — Fri, 13 May 2022 05:54:06 +0000

Melody Meckfessel is the CEO and Co-founder of Observable, a data collaboration platform that aims to help everyone participate, explore, and make sense of the world through data. Read about how her quest to help people learn more with data led to working with Microsoft.

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Convict to CEO: How a second chance led Harley Blakeman to found Honest Jobs

Ted Roduner — Wed, 04 May 2022 00:12:51 +0000

Harley Blakeman is the founder and CEO of Honest Jobs which helps people with a criminal record find meaningful work and helps businesses access a population of highly motivated, yet often overlooked, employees. I recently sat down with Harley to hear how his personal journey led him to start the company. First off, can you...

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Erika Brodnock, CEO of Kami on the art of collecting “Nos”

Ted Roduner — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:01:12 +0000

Mother-of-five Erika Brodnock is a TV pundit and PhD candidate. She is also the founder and CEO of Kami, an app that marries cutting-edge AI with human expertise to provide intelligent support to working parents. Erika sat down with us and shared her story and how she has mastered the subtle art of collecting "Nos"

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CustomerX.I Founder Hakeem James is leveling the retail playing field for mom-and-pop shops

Ted Roduner — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Hakeem James served as VP of Product for one of the largest couponing companies in the world. Here he worked with global Fortune 100 retailers and saw firsthand how powerful data and data science can be in understanding and better serving customers. He also saw that the benefits of this data revolution were consolidating with the big players leaving smaller businesses with razor thin margins behind. Read what he did next

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SeismicAI aims to save millions with their earthquake detection system.

Ted Roduner — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Read how SeismicAI are building their earthquake early warning solution on Microsoft Azure.

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Meet the Innovators – Turazo Founder Pete Cipollone Shares How His Path to Olympic Gold Inspired Mission to Help Companies Recruit High Performance Teams

Ted Roduner — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Pete Cipollone is the co-founder and CEO at Turazo. With the Tokyo games in full swing, we invited him to share how hard-won lessons around perseverance, coaching and mentorship in sports inspired his path to become a mission-driven startup founder and CEO.

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