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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

socalTECH

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego. What is PointPredictive? That's one of the bigger reasons.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Metrics availability. Not that I blame you! Silly, right?

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

Both Sides of the Table

Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. Let me explain. But much good also came.

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Tech Transforms the Election Experience, From VR to Voter Registration

Xconomy

The use of biological metrics and neuroscience in marketing is starting to expand to political research and campaign strategy-making. But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones.