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Gatsby: Tackling Shopping Cart Abandonment With Social Sharing

socalTECH

The number one metric we are targeting with Gatsby, is the pre-conversion and abandonment rate. I was just 22, coming out of college, and my dad had made a hobby of the business in San Diego. They'd tell us they were removing their Coke and Pepsi machines, and they needed us to help provide our services.

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How Arivale Is Harnessing Genomics To Optimize Human Health and Wellness

socalTECH

How is this different from other DNA testing startups and services out there today? Third, there's ultimately the real opportunity to develop scientific, validated metrics for wellness. conference, and Lee gave the keynote at Exponential in San Diego, reaching out to individuals to join the program there. READ MORE>>.

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MapMyFitness | Keeping an Eye on Health

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If we rewind to 8 years ago, it was me in San Diego training for my second marathon and I was trying to start another company at the time. Metrics are important for any fitness buff and MapMyFitness does the job well by providing necessary data such as calories burned, distance traveled, time spent on workout, etc.,

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Is Technology Crucial for Innovation?

Xconomy

It created PC software; desktop publishing; streaming media; e-tailing; modern cellular service; commercial cloud computing; and online government data for the management of cities. And we’re entering the age that Lee Hood calls P4 Medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory)—again, entirely enabled by technology.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Jason Howe: What we do at Awarepoint is, at the 10,000 foot level, is RTLS - Real Time Location Services. We deliver our services directly to the acute care area. READ MORE>>

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: We like to think ourselves as a layer above all the other services that you may use that have a report. That’s the first thing. Plus, sunshine.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. We sold the first company to a French services company and were racing around getting our second company off of the ground. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going.