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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business. With this approach to establishing and tracking milestones, ReadyTalk launched its beta of UbiMeet.com in March 2015.

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6 Reasons Startups Should Skip the Big-Bang Launch

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. A soft launch is less stressful to the team and lets them more gradually re-acclimate from a development environment to a delivery environment. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/18/2015.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

As the marketing industry developed, researchers dove deeper into buying behavior and buyers’ minds. The research can help companies build appealing shopping environments, plan sales processes, and develop marketing materials. One early researcher was Edward Bernays—Sigmund Freud’s nephew—who coined the term “public relations.”.

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Thoughts from RSA and the Climate for Security Startups

BeyondVC

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers. Is PII and GDPR real?

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Cyber Threats Startups Need To Watch Out For In 2015

YoungUpstarts

Also, if it’s a company where the owner is wearing the hat of the CIO, information security officer, manager, web developer, and he’s managing everything because he is a startup owner, that person’s business is at a high risk of being a victim to cyber crime activity. Why are startups so exposed?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18- I conceptualized Jettproof after realizing that there wasn't any regular clothing in the market that could ease the meltdowns of my son Jett, who was diagnosed with severe autism, global development delay, and sensory processing disorder. My side-hustle started in 2015 on a whim.