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When you are building a business, crisis planning is rarely a priority. Founders are focused on growth: winning customers, hiring talent, launching products and raising investment. Even in established organisations, preparing for disruption is often neglected until something goes wrong.

A lack of adequate funding continues to hold back aspiring entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. This is not only demotivating for entrepreneurs but also economically self-defeating for a country that needs more innovation, investment and job creation. According to a report by research firm LightCastle Partners, startup funding plummeted by 95 per cent year-on-year to a meagre…

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is trying to solve two problems at once: proving its AI hardware can keep growing as fast as Street expects, and making a case for why that growth alone should justify the stock’s price. On August 6, AMD confirmed a deal to buy Taalas, a Toronto-based startup building specialized silicon for…