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19 Entrepreneurs List Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

Innovations like blockchain, virtual reality, and cloud computing are transforming business and communication. I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. I was solving my own pain point as a consumer.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future. Today, with about 7.2

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. That means marketers can change and test anything, anywhere on their sites, for any segment of shoppers, instantly, without I.T.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

ConversionXL

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. Now that more and more tools allow you to access raw data—and cloud storage has become more powerful—web analysts should shift focus, too. For regular use, aggregated data is usually enough.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.