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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Series D Preferred.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. It is a complex IT project in and of itself. million CPUs.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Our next team up was Personal Libraries which proposed to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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The Active Cycle of Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Today when I talk to clients and audiences about the need for content I am referring to the act of simultaneously producing, sharing and networking as a form of an active cycle of content that has entered every aspect of what we do as marketers. Sharing filtered, curated and aggregated written, spoken and recorded words and pictures.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product. For reference, this is about the price of a bar of soap.”. For reference, this is about the price of a [popular local] cookie.”. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem? 2014 , pg.

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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. This means that you can avoid duplicating messages, making incorrect claims, and reference distinct elements that may be important to that customer. More broadly, you can look at purchasing, communication, and feedback trends.