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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. We like that it is 1000x better than having to call restaurants on the phone, be put on hold or call during normal business hours to book appointments.

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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7 Ways to Use Data and Analytics for Strategic Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes. Make sure you have team members covering both domains, to balance your decision input. You are the business scientist, to balance data scientists.

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Austin startup launches ridesharing service between Austin and Houston

Austin Startup

Left to Right: Matt Chasen (Chairman), Tanuj Girish (CTO), Kush Singh (CEO) uShip co-founders Matt Chasen and Jay Manickam used to joke about it when people listed themselves as “shipments” on uShip?—?in From left to right: Tanuj Girish (CTO), Kush Singh (CEO) The company is off to a promising start?—?it around $25?—?for

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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How the Internet of Things is impacting New Zealand businesses

NZ Entrepreneur

“The Internet of Things is about taking ordinary objects/machinery or things that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, and then connecting them to the internet,” explains Jourdan Templeton, a Chief Technology Officer from Aware Group. “We We do this for two reasons.

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.