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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

Conventional thinking in business has long been that strategy decisions are made by humans, while the focus of automation and machine learning should be on execution. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality. The efficiency gain is tremendous.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

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We never built our product on one partner’s data platform but on many (20 primary data sources plus 100+ smaller ones) and Twitter’s move doesn’t “shut down DataSift” it simply takes 1,000+ customers who consume Twitter data through DataSift and makes their life more difficult. Just how much?

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

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3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. This method was in deference to a riskier, more crowd-sourced way (i.e. West Coast”). 7. After McAfee bought SiteAdvisor, Chris worked there for 15 months.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Often, despite your passion and expectation, customers don’t immediately see the value and need that you see, and you have no idea why the initiative is stuck , and what could be the real customer issue or fix. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand. Customers need supporting approvals to fully benefit.

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Berkeley’s SkyDeck Offers Chip Design Support Worth Millions to Startups

Xconomy

The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. A wave of next-generation chip companies has also entered the fray.

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7 Accelerated Growth Strategies For Disruptive Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Incent friendly competition with prizes. Attacking an issue that affects many potential customers allows you to focus on providing solutions, and lets your community do the selling. Playing well with other organizations in cyberspace and in the real world is more effective than trying to move the mountain alone. People love to compete.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

socalTECH

There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage. Having a strong presence online and strong, positive word of mouth in a relevant audience is a real competitive advantage.

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