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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

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Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. If the information you are relying upon for a credit score is false, then it makes that credit score almost not usable.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. It's fine to send out documents that have older information.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. billion invested in Q2.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Although the expert’s startup and Twilio never formed a partnership, our collaborative approach to diligence did benefit Jeff and his team.

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That might be check-ins, that might be photos, reviews, likes, all of those things are in one place. How difficult has it been to sort through all that information, and what have you learned in the process?

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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