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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. Fifth: reaction.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “And

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Every New Business Needs A Unique Selling Proposition

Startup Professionals Musings

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Focus simply means launching your first and most memorable initiative where you see a unique skill and experience fit, your best competitive positioning with the least risk, and the greatest potential return. Realistically characterize the competition. Claiming you have no competition also implies lack of focus on competition.

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7 Rules For Innovations That Produce Dominant Players

Startup Professionals Musings

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/14/2017.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

socalTECH

Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences.