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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. In 2015, the Chief Technology Officer at the White House, Todd Park, mentioned I ought to meet with the Department of Defense who were thinking of creating the Defense Digital Service , a DOD version of United States Digital Service.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you reflect on one part of Techstars – the accelerator programs – we’ve added the following new programs in 2015. There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Techstars Mobility (Detroit).

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015. He started his first company at 18, where he grew the business and successfully lead it through an acquisition just two years later.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I learned that software engineers?—?or Further, I was able to show the actual monetary impact of what this impact is worth to the company (thinking along the lines of customer spend, customer acquisition and retention costs, etc.). or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists. Be careful, though!