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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. Each presenter had small demo booths where investors could ask questions about the venture and see the software in operation. Two events this week in St. Here more than 40 companies presented to about 50 investors.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. Good Post.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #12- Those 6 KRIs are Confidentiality, Human Resources, Integrity, Character, Availability, and GOld. 11- Flagship product.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

And it really just, kind of, comes from this problem, that in the aggregate, if you get 10,000 coin flips, we can say something spectacular about the quality of our decisions and what we should learn or not learn from them. And you can run green lights and get in accidents. But that’s not the way that our brains process information.

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Two Amazing Bar Charts: % Content Consumption, % Share of Search

Occam's Razor

For www.ti.com the content clusters might be: Products, Applications, Tools & Software, Support, Community, Sample & Buy etc. " To think you just managed to get those little green bar's worth. Then the question becomes… where do you get this valuable orange-green graph? I would recommend that latter.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

ConversionXL

Imagine you need a monthly report with data from Google Analytics, your CRM, call tracking software, and some other sources. Pulling your Google Analytics data into BigQuery has benefits: No sampling; You own the data; Non-aggregate stats; Ability to create custom attribution models , etc. A (not so) hypothetical use case. NO * SELECT.

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