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5 Virginia Startups at Collision 2018 That Should Be on Your Radar

Tech.Co

The product blends data mining, cognitive AI, and learning science to analyze a company’s competencies and present the information through simple reporting in order to gain valuable insights from their big data. Headai launched the product in Finland and projects to start in the U.S. in Spring 2018.

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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

socalTECH

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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7 Steps To A Winning Social Media Marketing Campaign

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Create an action plan with metrics. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

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Members Hire Associations, Members Fire Associations

socalTECH

Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations is what the new mantra will be for Association Executives in 2018. In 2018 the new mantra will be: Members hire Associations, Members fire Associations. This data is playing an increasingly important role in strategic planning and product development.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/17/2018.

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7 Keys To Making People First And Winning In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Once this product-first, customer-second, and employee-last culture is set, it is extremely hard to change. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product. These metrics need the same top management attention as customer retention and sales metrics. Yet, in the long run, your people are your business.

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