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AI Registry to Protect Athlete Likenesses and Digital IP Launched by New Sports-Tech Firm Callandor Group (EXCLUSIVE)

As AI continues to reshape the entertainment and sports industries, a newly launched sports-tech firm is making the case that athletes have become contributors to the AI economy — and that no standardized system exists to compensate them for it. Callandor Group has unveiled what it describes as the first dedicated registry for sports intellectual…

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His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.

Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor’s determination.  Watch as founder and former CEO…

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