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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

The net impact of all this is that any conversation about price without the other pieces will never yield full success. Facts and market data is key — hunches and gut responses are rarely sufficient to improve your pricing architecture. Do you have patents or IP wedges that create defensible moats around your differentiation?

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Lying on your resume

Steve Blank

This is long before the days of the net.). But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.) It would have been really easy to lie, and what the heck the recruiter was telling me to do so.

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"God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

Whether you like the architecture of Mies van der Rohe or not, this particular comment does make you stop and think. I think we thought that the good product guys could get away with it because the detail of good customer service was unimportant with strong IP. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! God is in the details."

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Deep Learning /Neural Nets – a subfield of machine learning. Neural nets are effective at a variety of tasks ( e.g., image classification, speech recognition). A deep learning neural net algorithm is given massive volumes of data, and a task to perform – such as classification. See here.). Classic Computers- Hardware.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. Fring - fring is a mobile social communication hub that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences over IP all from one integrated contact list on their mobile devices.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , billion, of which $2.5