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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.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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Echo Labs Wins “Quick Pitch” Contest with Digital Hybrid Microscope

Xconomy

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. I have much experience in this domain.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. When I decided to start blogging again (I had done so as an entrepreneur) I thought about how to brand myself. Initially I thought it was too long of a name for a blog.When I looked at the competition it as AVC.com and Feld.com. ” Not technical.