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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Often when they do I throw out my favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. People throw them around at cocktail parties. I say it deadpanned. It’s irony.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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When I look at the attributes that I feel are most important in a startup CEO: tenacity, street smarts, the mental flexibility to pivot, resiliency, leadership / inspiration, work ethic, attention to detail, competitiveness, decisiveness and integrity – I think these all fall into the 80% nature territory. Or at least 73.6%

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

socalTECH

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. Is it possible to use technology to replace the age-old system currently in use in insurance?

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. Where did all of that technology come from? That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

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In fact, many of these people can adjust the company presentations on the fly as you roll out new product features or can reposition versus the competition as they get feedback from customer losses. I think PR is an incredibly important activity for technology companies and most companies aren’t very good at it.

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10 Self-Assessment Checks For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Are you bored, wanting to be free of a boss, or eager to showcase a hot technology? Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. These are not valid reasons to start a business.