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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

socalTECH

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. Google is doing a web presentment tool, taking data from utility companies. I was impressed by what he was working on.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Now study the event organizer. I have the option to upload that data into my CRM. What are their interests?

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re at a large corporation, you have the ability to give a startup the first contract they need to break out from the crowd or at least give them their first pilot. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. My closest friend from high school, Rob Sowers, had studied abroad in Spain during college.

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