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Is it your brilliant plan or your execution?

Berkonomics

We built one of our companies upon forecasted metrics for a specific class of retail consumer base but found that there wasn’t enough money in our universe to pay for the amount of marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. A personal story of a pivot – Tyson style.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. Engagement.

News 198
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It’s mostly in the execution.

Berkonomics

We built one of our companies upon forecasted metrics for a specific class of retail consumer base, but found that there wasn’t enough money in our universe to pay for marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. Email readers, continue here.]

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Marketing and big data: Finding that needle in the haystack

Berkonomics

Using big data that has been mined for specific information, we can now market to individuals within classes, some of whom will not fit the stereotype and would have been missed with more generalized efforts. Email readers, continue here…] Consider the soon–to–be grandmother checking for gifts for her pregnant daughter.

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Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA

socalTECH

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. So when is the next class?

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

socalTECH

For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

socalTECH

The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. That allows pre-readers to play, and also any kid in any part of the world can play the game, because there are no language issues. Grant Hosford: I was working at Idealab, for Bill Gross, when I had the idea.

Software 100