#scaling startup teams

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How Startups Can Benefit from Recruitment Partnerships

For startups, success often hinges on building a strong, agile team that can turn big ideas into scalable realities. However, finding and hiring top talent is one of the biggest challenges early-stage companies face. Limited resources, lack of brand recognition, and time constraints can make recruitment a daunting process.

That’s where recruitment partnerships come in—a strategic solution that can give startups the hiring edge they need. In this blog, we explore how recruitment partnerships work and the many ways they can benefit startups looking to grow efficiently and effectively.

What Is a Recruitment Partnership?

A recruitment partnership is a long-term collaboration between a company and a recruitment agency or talent consultant. Unlike one-off hiring services, this partnership is built on ongoing support, shared goals, and mutual trust. The recruiter works closely with the startup to understand its culture, business objectives, and talent needs, acting almost like an extension of the internal team.

Why Startups Should Consider Recruitment Partnerships

1. Access to Top Talent, Faster

Startups often need to hire quickly to stay ahead of competitors and meet investor expectations. Recruitment partners already have networks of pre-vetted candidates and deep industry knowledge, which means they can deliver high-quality candidates much faster than internal teams starting from scratch.

2. Focus on Core Business Activities

Hiring takes time—time that startup founders and small teams often don’t have. By outsourcing recruitment to a trusted partner, startups can free up internal bandwidth and focus on what matters most: building products, scaling operations, and driving growth.

3. Cost-Effective Hiring

While startups are often cautious with spending, recruitment partnerships can actually reduce long-term costs. A good partner helps avoid expensive mis-hires, cuts down on hiring delays, and streamlines the entire recruitment process—leading to better ROI on each hire.

4. Help with Employer Branding

Many top candidates hesitate to join lesser-known startups. Recruitment partners can effectively pitch your brand, mission, and culture to candidates—helping you attract talent who are aligned with your vision. This is especially valuable for startups lacking established HR or marketing teams.

5. Scalable Hiring Support

Startups often go through periods of rapid growth. Recruitment partners can scale hiring efforts up or down based on your business needs—whether you're hiring 3 people this quarter or 30 in the next.

6. Specialized Roles and Niche Talent

Finding candidates for highly specialized or technical roles can be tough. Recruitment partners often have expertise in niche markets and can find talent that’s difficult to reach through job boards or social media alone.

Not all agencies are the same. Startups should look for partners who:

Understand the startup ecosystem.

Have experience in relevant industries or roles.

Offer flexible pricing models.

Prioritize quality over quantity.

Align with your company’s values and goals.

Building a strong, transparent relationship with your recruitment partner can make all the difference in the hiring journey.

Final Thoughts

For startups, hiring the right people at the right time is crucial—and often a make-or-break factor. A recruitment partnership offers more than just hiring support; it provides strategic talent acquisition aligned with your startup’s growth journey.

If you're struggling to find the time, tools, or talent to hire effectively, a recruitment partner might be the key to scaling faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.

About Author

Sanjev Nagar is the COO of GroYouth and a recruitment and training veteran with over 32 years of experience. He has successfully implemented and executed several large-scale projects with leading industry and government partners.

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Ultimate Guide to DeepSeek AI for Business Growth

Table of Contents of DeepSeek AI for Business Growth1. Introduction: Why AI is Essential for Modern Business Growth2. What Is DeepSeek AI?3. Top 5 DeepSeek AI Tools for Scaling Businesses3.1 Demand Forecasting Engine3.2 Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Predictor3.3 Automated Supply Chain Optimizer3.4 Dynamic Pricing Module3.5 Sentiment Analysis Hub4. How DeepSeek AI Reduces Costs and Boosts…

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Empowering Your Team: Building a Workforce Ready for Business Scaling

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the ability to scale operations effectively is crucial for long-term success. One of the most significant factors in driving this growth is a well-empowered team. Empowering your team: building a workforce ready for business scaling involves strategic planning, fostering a culture of innovation, and equipping employees with the necessary tools and…

[mariacallous]

The Ocean Sciences Building at the University of Washington in Seattle is a brightly modern, four-story structure, with large glass windows reflecting the bay across the street.

On the afternoon of July 7, 2016, it was being slowly locked down.

Red lights began flashing at the entrances as students and faculty filed out under overcast skies. Eventually, just a handful of people remained inside, preparing to unleash one of the most destructive forces in the natural world: the crushing weight of about 2½ miles of ocean water.

In the building’s high-pressure testing facility, a black, pill-shaped capsule hung from a hoist on the ceiling. About 3 feet long, it was a scale model of a submersible called Cyclops 2, developed by a local startup called OceanGate. The company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, had cofounded the company in 2009 as a sort of submarine charter service, anticipating a growing need for commercial and research trips to the ocean floor. At first, Rush acquired older, steel-hulled subs for expeditions, but in 2013 OceanGate had begun designing what the company called “a revolutionary new manned submersible.” Among the sub’s innovations were its lightweight hull, which was built from carbon fiber and could accommodate more passengers than the spherical cabins traditionally used in deep-sea diving. By 2016, Rush’s dream was to take paying customers down to the most famous shipwreck of them all: the Titanic, 3,800 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

Engineers carefully lowered the Cyclops 2 model into the testing tank nose-first, like a bomb being loaded into a silo, and then screwed on the tank’s 3,600-pound lid. Then they began pumping in water, increasing the pressure to mimic a submersible’s dive. If you’re hanging out at sea level, the weight of the atmosphere above you exerts 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi). The deeper you go, the stronger that pressure; at the Titanic’s depth, the pressure is about 6,500 psi. Soon, the pressure gauge on UW’s test tank read 1,000 psi, and it kept ticking up—2,000 psi, 5,000 psi. At about the 73-minute mark, as the pressure in the tank reached 6,500 psi, there was a sudden roar and the tank shuddered violently.

“I felt it in my body,” an OceanGate employee wrote in an email later that night. “The building rocked, and my ears rang for a long time.”

“Scared the shit out of everyone,” he added.

The model had imploded thousands of meters short of the safety margin OceanGate had designed for.

In the high-stakes, high-cost world of crewed submersibles, most engineering teams would have gone back to the drawing board, or at least ordered more models to test. Rush’s company didn’t do either of those things. Instead, within months, OceanGate began building a full-scale Cyclops 2 based on the imploded model. This submersible design, later renamed Titan, eventually made it down to the Titanic in 2021. It even returned to the site for expeditions the next two years. But nearly one year ago, on June 18, 2023, Titan dove to the infamous wreck and imploded, instantly killing all five people onboard, including Rush himself.

The disaster captivated and horrified the world. Deep-sea experts criticized OceanGate’s choices, from Titan’s carbon-fiber construction to Rush’s public disdain for industry regulations, which he believed stifled innovation. Organizations that had worked with OceanGate, including the University of Washington as well as the Boeing Company, released statements denying that they contributed to Titan.

A trove of tens of thousands of internal OceanGate emails, documents, and photographs provided exclusively to WIRED by anonymous sources sheds new light on Titan’s development, from its initial design and manufacture through its first deep-sea operations. The documents, validated by interviews with two third-party suppliers and several former OceanGate employees with intimate knowledge of Titan, reveal never-before-reported details about the design and testing of the submersible. They show that Boeing and the University of Washington were both involved in the early stages of OceanGate’s carbon-fiber sub project, although their work did not make it into the final Titan design. The trove also reveals a company culture in which employees who questioned their bosses’ high-speed approach and decisions were dismissed as overly cautious or even fired. (The former employees who spoke to WIRED have asked not to be named for fear of being sued by the families of those who died aboard the vessel.) Most of all, the documents show how Rush, blinkered by his own ambition to be the Elon Musk of the deep seas, repeatedly overstated OceanGate’s progress and, on at least one occasion, outright lied about significant problems with Titan’s hull, which has not been previously reported.

A representative for OceanGate, which ceased all operations last summer, declined to comment on WIRED’s findings.

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The Best News of Last Week

1. ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

In 2016, Japanese scientists Oda and Hiraga published their discovery of Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium capable of breaking down PET plastic into basic nutrients. This finding marked a shift in microbiology's perception, recognizing the potential of microbes to solve pressing environmental issues.

France's Carbios has successfully applied bacterial enzyme technology to recycle PET plastic waste into new plastic products, aligning with the French government's goal of fully recycling plastic packaging by 2025.

2. HIV cases in Amsterdam drop to almost zero after PrEP scheme

According to Dutch AIDS Fund, there were only nine new cases of the virus in Amsterdam in 2022, down from 66 people diagnosed in 2021. The organisation claimed that 128 people were diagnosed with HIV in Amsterdam in 2019, and since 2010, the number of new infections in the Dutch capital has fallen by 95 per cent.

3. Cheap and drinkable water from desalination is finally a reality

In a groundbreaking endeavor, engineers from MIT and China have designed a passive solar desalination system aimed at converting seawater into drinkable water.

The concept, articulated in a study published in the journal Joule, harnesses the dual powers of the sun and the inherent properties of seawater, emulating the ocean’s “thermohaline” circulation on a smaller scale, to evaporate water and leave salt behind.

4. World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.

Toregem Biopharma is slated to begin clinical trials in July of next year after it succeeded growing new teeth in mice five years ago, the Japan Times reports.

5. After Decades of Pressure, US Drugmaker J&J Gives Up Patent on Life-Saving TB Drug

In what can be termed a huge development for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) patients across large parts of the world, bedaquiline maker Johnson and Johnson said on September 30 (Saturday) that it would drop its patent over the drug in 134 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

6. Stranded dolphins rescued from shallow river in Massachusetts

7. ‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief

The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog has said.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, and the world’s foremost energy economist, said much more needed to be done but that the rapid uptake of solar power and electric vehicles were encouraging.

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[castillon02]

Tim reviews Jason's operations management and makes a suggestion.

"Your first move: hire a head of sanitation," Tim said.

"You think a janitor's gonna solve my suddenly-successful-startup problems? What, by sweeping them away?" Jason rolled his eyes.

Tim steepled his fingers. “The good news,” he said, “is that your drug distribution and community norms enforcement hierarchy is very clear. You also have people doing marketing, program management, HR, facilities, and admin. Your system of rotating duties when people get injured isn’t bad—people generally benefit from cross-training—but you should formalize the top positions and compensate your new leadership team. Including sanitation.” 

“Sure, sure, I'll just tell one of my guys their job is to be head shit-scrubber instead of a badass neighborhood protector!" Jason threw up his hands.

Tim raised his eyebrows.

“It’s bad enough getting them to clean up a crime scene when they’re on my literal shit list! A couple of them thought that lighting the building on fire was an easier way to get it to stop smelling bad and having DNA. Guess who had to add five new slides to his powerpoint about evidence disposal?" Jason glared.

Tim grimaced. "I had an intern in the office who thought that he could just throw trash off his desk for the cleaning staff to pick up."

He and Jason shared a commiserating look that silently said, We were both stupid enough to work with the League of Assassins, and even we wouldn't do that.

“Anyway," Tim continued, "since you're dealing with...that...you can just hire an outside party. Lots of people in Gotham know how to clean up dead bodies and keep their mouths shut. I can advertise the position and send you the likeliest candidates for an interview. I’ll have to incorporate you, of course, but I’ve had the paperwork ready since I got back from the Middle East.” 

“Incorporate me?” 

“Red Hood LLC, technically."

Jason's breathing became calculatedly even.

"Once you’re legit in the eyes of the law, we can work on squaring away everyone’s taxes and keep you from getting Capone’d.” 

“I’m as legit as one of Two-Face’s two-dollar bills!” 

“Yeah, but when you’re an LLC, all your crimes are white-collar crimes, and no one cares about those.” Tim shrugged.

“...Pretty sure that’s not how that works, bud.” 

“It’s how the court of public opinion works. And if anyone tries to say that Red Hood, CEO of Red Hood LLC, and Red Hood, notorious vigilante, are the same person? Tell them to prove it. So what if you have the same outfit? It’s a free country and people can wear what they want. And if they ever get your DNA results, Oracle says no they didn't.”

Jason tilted his head and started smiling. "You want Red Hood to be the Scarlet Pimpernel and Percy Blakeney. At the same time."

"The more blatant you are about it, the better. Rub elbows with Gotham's elite and tell them that you can't imagine why someone would let a Crime Alley vigilante ruin their ability to wear a red hood as a fashion statement, but in your company, people have spines. Especially when they're job creators. If you play your cards right, red headgear will be back in fashion."

"And then?"

"And then," Tim's eyes gleamed, "you start selling merch."

"Oh, shit." Jason's smile turned into a full-on smirk.

"On a sliding scale, of course."

"Those nepo babies are gonna pay me so much money to look cool."

Tim smiled. "And that's how hiring a head shit-scrubber is going to mitigate your high growth and cash flow problems."

[artbyblastweave]

A one-and-done line of Worm Worldbuilding which I think about a lot is in Lisa's interlude, where she receives mover support from a jetpack user she describes as, quote, "one of the Silicon Valley Capes." Worlds unspoken there, right? That the Wormverse Silicon Valley has a distinct enough and well-known enough cape subculture that Lisa can visually identify him as one of them immediately. He's using a jetpack- a tinker? Or another kind of cape with Gallant-style tinker backing, because the expectation of advanced technology is the price of admission in that area? Mention is made of at least two rival corporate teams being in attendance, and this is the section of the book where they're still talking about things like the "tinker-driven tech boom." Do you see my vision? The expanse of twee-named 2010s tech startups fielding superpowered mascot-janissaries? The apps-as-services which are bogus, unsustainable ventures puffed up by flashy tinkertech demos that haven't a prayer of scaling? Sillicon Valley or The Social Network, as prosecuted with mechs and laser weaponry? The most insufferable corporate social media presences that you ever did see?

[dostoyevsky-official]

Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management

Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall. Scott Kupor, a managing partner at the powerful investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, stands as Trump’s nominee to run the OPM. But already in place, according to sources, are a variety of people who seem ready to carry out Musk’s mission of cutting staff and disrupting the government. Amanda Scales is, as has been reported, the new chief of staff at the OPM. She formerly worked in talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, according to her LinkedIn. Before that, she was part of the talent and operations team at Human Capital, a venture firm with investments in the defense tech startup Anduril and the political betting platform Kalshi; before that, she worked for years at Uber. Her placement in this key role, experts believe, seems part of a broader pattern of the traditionally apolitical OPM being converted to use as a political tool. [...] According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with apparent software engineering backgrounds, whom WIRED is not naming because of their ages. One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online résumé touts his work for Palantir, the government contractor and analytics firm cofounded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is its chair. (The former CEO of PayPal and a longtime Musk associate, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaign of his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.) The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.

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[mariacallous]

Centibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US Digital Service—now the United States DOGE Service—has been widely publicized and sanctioned by one of President Donald Trump’s many executive orders. But WIRED reporting shows that Musk’s influence extends even further, and into an even more consequential government agency.

Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.

Scott Kupor, a managing partner at the powerful investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, stands as Trump’s nominee to run the OPM. But already in place, according to sources, are a variety of people who seem ready to carry out Musk’s mission of cutting staff and disrupting the government.

Amanda Scales is, as has been reported, the new chief of staff at the OPM. She formerly worked in talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, according to her LinkedIn. Before that, she was part of the talent and operations team at Human Capital, a venture firm with investments in the defense tech startup Anduril and the political betting platform Kalshi; before that, she worked for years at Uber. Her placement in this key role, experts believe, seems part of a broader pattern of the traditionally apolitical OPM being converted to use as a political tool.

“I don't think it's alarmist to say there's a much more sophisticated plan to monitor and enforce loyalty than there was in the first term,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.

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Are you a current or former employee with the Office of Personnel Management or another government agency impacted by Elon Musk? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact Vittoria Elliott at vittoria_elliott@wired.com or securely at velliott88.18 on Signal.

Sources say that Riccardo Biasini, formerly an engineer at Tesla and most recently director of operations for the Las Vegas Loop at the Boring Company, Musk’s tunnel-building operation, is also at the OPM as a senior adviser to the director. (Steve Davis, the CEO of the Boring Company, is rumored to be advising Musk on cuts to be made via DOGE and was integral in Musk’s gutting of Twitter, now X, after his takeover of the company in 2022.)

According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with apparent software engineering backgrounds, whom WIRED is not naming because of their ages. One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online résumé touts his work for Palantir, the government contractor and analytics firm cofounded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is its chair. (The former CEO of PayPal and a longtime Musk associate, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaign of his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.) The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.

Among the new highers-up at the OPM is Noah Peters, an attorney whose LinkedIn boasts of his work in litigation representing the National Rifle Association and who has written for right-wing outlets like the Daily Caller and the Federalist; he is also now a senior adviser to the director. According to metadata associated with a file on the OPM website, Peters authored a January 27 memo that went out under acting OPM director Charles Ezell’s name describing how the department would be implementing one of Trump’s executive orders, “Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce.” This has to do with what’s sometimes known as Schedule F—a plan to recategorize many civil service jobs as political appointees, meaning they would be tied to the specific agenda of an administration rather than viewed as career government workers. The order would essentially allow for certain career civil servants to be removed in favor of Trump loyalists by classifying them as political appointees, a key part of the Project 2025 plan for remaking the government.

“I think on the tech side, the concern is potentially the use of AI to try and engage in large-scale searches of people's job descriptions to try and identify who would be identified for Schedule F reclassification,” says Moynihan.

Other top political appointees include McLaurine Pinover, a former communications director for Republican congressman Joe Wilson and deputy communications director for Republican congressman Michael McCaul, and Joanna Wischer, a Trump campaign speechwriter.

“OPM is not a very politicized organization,” says Steven Kelman, a professor emeritus at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. “My guess is that typically, in the past, there have been only one or maybe two political appointees in all of OPM. All the rest are career. So this seems like a very political heavy presence in an organization that is not very political.”

Another OPM memo, concerning the government’s new return-to-office mandate, appears, according to metadata, also to have been authored by someone other than Ezell: James Sherk, previously at the America First Policy Institute and author of an op-ed advocating for the president to be able to fire bureaucrats. Formerly a special assistant to the president during Trump’s first term, he is now a part of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

The return-to-office policy, according to the November Wall Street Journal op-ed authored by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is explicitly geared toward forcing the attrition of federal employees.

Last week, many federal workers received test emails from the email address HR@opm.gov. In a lawsuit filed last night, plaintiffs allege that a new email list started by the Trump administration may be compromising the data of federal employees.

“At a broadest level, the concern is that technologists are playing a role to monitor employees and to target those who will be downsized,” says Moynihan. “It is difficult in the federal government to actually evaluate who is performing well or performing poorly. So doing it on some sort of mass automated scale where you think using some sort of data analysis or AI would automate that process, I think, is an invitation to make errors.”

Last week, federal employees across the government received emails encouraging them to turn in colleagues who they believed to be working on diversity, equity, inclusion, and access initiatives (DEIA) to the OPM via the email address DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

“This reminded me,” says Kelman, “of the Soviet Stalinism of turning in your friends to the government.”

The OPM did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the people whom sources say now sit atop the bureaucracy.

“I am not an alarmist person,” says Kelman. “I do think that some of the things being described here are very troubling.”

[silviakundera]

Lighter and Princess Ep 27 thoughts

Sad that LX really had to go too far in lashing out to come to some revelations about how him pushing everyone away hurts THEM too. He's been thinking of himself as poison at this point, and so preventing attachments is for others' own good. He had to be shocked out of that twisted mindset.

Honestly, he's getting a lot of grace from me due to the whole 3 years in prison thing. He's not well. If this was just regular dude angst, I wouldn't be so forgiving. But these are atypical circumstances.

With the visit to teacher Lin there's a light at the end of the tunnel, though. He's opening up and talking about being prision, acknowledging it frankly and with good-natured humor instead of verbal stabs. And he declines the offer of getting a foot in the door of a major company, acknowledging (!!) that he likes his co-workers. He SMILES. "I like them very much."

Thinking back to the start of his university era... I can't imagine the same sincere smile & statement about the base squad. These guys he has partnered with aren't half as bright as his team members in the past, but Li Xun isn't trapped like Gao is - he's changed from his experiences. He no longer uses the same metrics to judge people as worth his time. He is still on top of the mountain, but he's not looking down from there at others in the same lofty, derisive way he did at 19. This isn't just the last 3 years, it's been a slow change building in him all this time. But it just hit me here.

Li Xun's realization at how awake and alive Zhu Yun has been at their lil flop startup, feeling creative and engaged. And his own admittance that he likes it there.... it's just a perfect contrast with Lao Gao and Fang Zhijing at their sterling corporation, and how fucking miserable they clearly are. Especially Gao, who is still finding no joy in his profession and has no passion for programming or game design and only thinks about "winning". The giddy glee at Flying is a perfect contrast to Gao's dead eyes at an up-scale bar.

dangermousie had a great comment to me, about how Gao can never be satisfied because of his desperation, because he needs to win & prove himself and the essence of Li Xun's cool badassery is that he doesn't. god, the absolute worst thing that Li Xun can do to Gao is what it seems like he might be starting to find right now: being happy where he is and feeling that what he's producing is great.

Li Xun has his own measure of success and I truly hope he finds it. He already told us in ep 23: "I don't want money or his company. I want dignity. He needs to give back what I lost."

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Guest lecture on "Building the Next Unicorn"

Mr. Naresh Gupta, CTO, Techrupt Innovations, delivered an inspiring guest lecture on "Building the Next Unicorn" to BCA, BBA, and B. Com students at KCC Institute of Legal and Higher Education . Mr. Gupta, an accomplished entrepreneur, shared essential insights for startup success, emphasizing the importance of innovative ideas, flawless execution, effective team building, customer-centricity, funding strategies, and global scaling. He stressed the need for resilience and a growth mindset. The lecture provided valuable guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs and left students with a renewed sense of determination to contribute to the world of startups and innovation.

guest lecture on "Building the Next Unicorn"

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Study shows spider silk bioproduction presents opportunities and challenges

Today, entrepreneurship is everywhere, including science. Engineers and scientists often apply their research to a product or service and use it to launch a startup. The world of bioproduction—using living cells and organisms to manufacture products—is fertile ground for entrepreneurship. Biomaterials are a critical component to pharmaceutical and vaccine production and are also used in industries ranging from packaging and textiles to agriculture and food production. Spider silk, long prized for its strength and elasticity, has created something of a furor in the biomanufacturing world as businesses look for ways to cheaply scale up production of silks, which can be used in everything from tactical gear to sutures and textiles. However, a comprehensive study conducted by a team of students from around the country, including University of California San Diego's Ghita Guessous, shows that there are many challenges facing the spider silk industry. The paper, whose authors are all students, was published in ACS Biomaterials and Engineering.

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The Metaverse is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a powerful tool that smart businesses are already using to grow faster, work better, and stand out.

Whether you're just hearing about it or looking to build your first virtual space, this starter guide will walk you through everything you need to know — in simple Indian English.

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Create virtual offices

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It creates an immersive experience — a space that feels real even though it’s digital.

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