The Weekly Collective

FIBA Company Ventures into Space While Deepening Tampa Connections
St. Pete Catalyst • StemRad, a FIBA alumni company that develops and manufactures personal protective equipment for radiation, will join the latest SpaceX mission. The radiation protection company designed a vest to protect astronauts from deep space radiation during a SpaceX flight this summer. For this mission, they will be testing radiation and the efficacy of protection with the use of two phantoms (anatomically accurate human mannequins).

SwiftUI is an Expressive UI Framework for iOS, MacOS and More
The Next Web • During Apple's highly anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, they announced their newest UI framework to support Swift, a coding language created by Apple five years ago. SwiftUI is available across all of Apple's devices and allows developers to create UI elements with an impressive, simple declarative syntax.

The Autonomous Economy
Harvard Business Review • W. Brian Arthur discusses how artificial intelligence is ushering us into an age of the autonomous economy with radical implications for our society in a podcast interview with HBR's Azeem Azhar. Arthur specifically highlights why the decision-making ability of AI will have a different class of impact on the economy than previous "landmark" technologies like the printing press.

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Position: Training and Client Support Associate

Position Highlights: Marxent is seeking someone who loves a good challenge to join their training and client support team. This role will be responsible for defining, creating and presenting training on their design applications; eloquently explaining to customers how they can continue to design and have immersive VR experiences. The Training and Client Support Associate will also serve as an expert on their suite of products and develop a deep understanding of Maxent's clients’ sales processes and breadth of products to determine how best to merchandise their application within the organization.

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The Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
Early founders and their teams have to nail equity compensation early to keep talent and partners invested. As the Holloway Guide describes, "equity compensation is the practice of granting partial ownership in a company in exchange for work. In its ideal form, equity compensation aligns the interests of individual employees with the goals of the company they work for, which can yield dramatic results in team building, innovation, and longevity of employment." In this guide, curated from experts and industry leaders, Holloway outlines the ways equity can be granted as compensation. This guide also covers the often confounding terminology, legal obscurities, and high stake decisions for those who give and receive equity.

How to Price Your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
So your MVP is ready, you have a go-to-market strategy and a team in place to help launch version 1, now what? Joe Procopio, a multi-exited entrepreneur, explains how a business should price its first product. He focuses on how to charge for future versions versus what the product is today, mentioning there's no such thing as free, and breaks down three tactical approaches startups can take when determining how to price an MVP for the market.