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Leading Through a Crisis: A Practical Guide for Founders

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Fatima Husain is a Principal Investor at Comcast Ventures and Catalyst Fund As COVID-19 swept over the startup landscape, early-stage investor Fatima Husain spent hours on calls with first-time founders, veteran entrepreneurs, and large tech company executives. The result is a practical guide for founders stabilizing companies and preparing for the next two years. Listed below are Leading Through a Crisis: A Practical Guide for Founders

COVID-19 Resources and Tools

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Start-up founders and their teams are known to move fast, forge partnerships, and tap unlimited creativity to do what they do best.

Attabotics is Fixing Old Supply Chain Problems with New Automation Technology

Scott Gravelle

Founder of Attabotics, Scott Gravelle, shares the idea that formed the business and the experiences that inspired him to build robots Solving a big problem can start with a small observation. For Scott Gravelle, founder of Attabotics, his idea to build robots started with ants, and observing how they seamlessly build colonies together. Big companies like Attabotics is Fixing Old Supply Chain Problems with New Automation Technology

Imagining the Future of Transportation

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By making smart investments, modern day commuter transportation can be much more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly By Dinesh Moorjani Urban commuters have a plethora of ways to get from point A to point B. Outside of bending space (for you quantum physics geeks), you might choose to drive your own car, take the metro Imagining the Future of Transportation

Software Eats Hardware: The Sequel

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Why I invested in Neural Magic — software that aims to replace high-cost, specialized AI hardware. We’ve heard for decades that “software eats hardware,” and it continues to be true. The latest episode starts in a suburb of Boston with a little-known company called Neural Magic. A spin out of MIT by a brilliant professor and his Software Eats Hardware: The Sequel

My First Six Months in Venture

Adam Spivack

Based in New York City, Adam Spivack joins the Comcast Ventures team to focus on early stage Enterprise companies If you ask principals what their day-to-day looks like, you’ll get as many varying answers as there are personalities in this field. Adam Spivack joined Comcast Ventures in March of 2019. It took the editorial team My First Six Months in Venture