Why India’s global startup playbook, built for SaaS and scale, is ill-suited for deeptech

The backlash against Goyal’s remarks was swift and predictable. Startup founders, enablers and watchers joined camps either defending or criticising the progress of India’s entrepreneurial ambition and effort. But beyond the discourse on the internet, Goyal’s remarks pointed to an uncomfortable truth: builders in India have long struggled to turn foundational science into scalable and…

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RFK Jr.’s Axing of CDC Climate Program Will Hurt Americans, Ex-Official Says

(Bloomberg) — A team of federal officials tasked with helping cities and states navigate the effects of climate change on people’s health was disbanded Tuesday, part of a sweeping overhaul ordered by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. More than a dozen staffers comprising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…

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How AI is transforming the role of venture capital for startups

At one end, a few elite engineers with exceptional architectural and business-function skills will command fat pay-cheques to troubleshoot code generated by artificial intelligence (AI). On the other, leaner teams of low-level engineers who generate code using AI assistants will replace the vast teams once required to execute large-scale software projects. Also Read: The good…

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Fake-and-flaky alert:Funders of NGOs should note social change isn’t T20 cricket

Overall, on ‘goodness,’ they follow a normal distribution around the average, with most in the middle and tail-ends on both sides. ‘Good’ here means genuinely well-intentioned, dedicated and hard-working, with relevant expertise and integrity.  The ‘fake-flake’ framework is useful to assess the goodness of an NGO. In brief: ‘Fake’ and ‘flake’ are like the X…

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