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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need?

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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal.

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Ninja Metrics: Apply Predictive Analytics To Makes Games More Profitable

socalTECH

It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. We take that one step further, and build in some social network analysis. Social network analysis is the science of how and when people connect, and how that impacts their lives. READ MORE>>.

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Ninja Metrics: Applying Predictive Analytics To Make Games More Profitable

socalTECH

It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. We take that one step further, and build in some social network analysis. Social network analysis is the science of how and when people connect, and how that impacts their lives. READ MORE>>.

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J.R. Johnson On Critical Mass and Communities

socalTECH

Johnson: Essentially, we built Lunch to be the source of the highest quality user generated content out there, all built on top of our similarity network. It really provides the most relevant reviews, because when you're looking for reviews, you want them from someone very similar to you.

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Pinterest Marketing & Technology Firm, HelloSociety Generates $30M In Additional Sales Revenue For Its Clients

Tech Zulu Event

According to Kyla Brennan, founder & CEO of HelloSociety, “Pinterest is undeniably one of the most exciting social networks to emerge recently.”. Pinterest said earlier last year it had topped Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined, for example and beat Twitter in February the same year.

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