blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge).

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA). We’ll talk more about this in step three.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. On one hand, it’s never been easier to reach a global audience, but on the other, it’s extremely hard to cut through the noise. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Take Twitch for example. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Special caution: Don't ever forget your common sense, and strive for the Global Maxima. If a data distribution is approximately normal then about 68 percent of the data values are within one standard deviation of the mean, about 95 percent are within two standard deviations, and about 99.7 Oh, your Finance team will love you!

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Furthermore, O’Reilly’s own examples demonstrate the difference between a blitzscalable and non-blitzscalable market.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. RDF The simple message of RDF is that you can represent linked data in a global way by structuring global identifiers (URIs) into triples. Well share some of the more common and illuminating "aha!" moments for each technology.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

The global healthcare industry is in flux like never before. Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 The healthcare industry is one of the rapidly developing industries globally. billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017). Wrapping up.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2014

The Google car, is quite It’s further proof that information, when distributed freely and easily changes the physical world too. In a world where everyone has access to all the major factors of production we end up with a global demarcation dispute. Next they’ll be competing for the lounge room in transit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Select investors: Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Slow Ventures, Maveron, Tiger Global Management. Allbirds’ expanding appeal, range of products, and distribution channels could attract Walmart. As Walmart seeks ways to compete against Amazon, Thrive Market could be a valuable tool. Disclosed funding: $27.4M.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to switch to a competing product in the future? Take global brand Headspace , a meditation and mindfulness app.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

So if Tesla didn’t come onto the scene in 2008 with a real, compelling reason to exist (create the world’s best electric vehicle and make it fun to drive and stunning to look at) it would never have a chance to compete with established incumbents. 2 large, global collaborations will be released in the coming week.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. There also weren’t a lot of novel ‘consumer startups’ being built in non-gaming areas, so Creator Economy was attractive to folks who didn’t want to work in B2B. Global Fandom.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. Here are five ways to keep your small business growing.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. Niche markets are a way to avoid competing with the many bigger legacy firms that have far greater resources than you do, not to mention an established customer base.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. What's missing from the celebration is the answer to this question: What does the global maxima look like? In fact you should be downright hungry/angry/happy because of the orange bars (the global maxima!).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Econsultancy/Lynchpin provides this description in the report: "There were 960 respondents to our research request, which took the form of a global online survey fielded in May and June 2016. Here is the distribution provided in the report: On paper it looks like the departments are to be what you would expect. Carpe Diem!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

But when you’re in the mood to draw in a few new sources for entrepreneurship you might consider these two books non-traditional books on entrepreneurship that had an impact on me. It globalizes. It shows us how the other 6 billion humans live, compete, struggle for resources and find clever ways to rise above their means. (I

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Transformify

JULY 30, 2019

In partnership with the executive team, Lorie designed MassMutual’s first diversity and inclusion strategy, focused on Leadership, Marketplace & Distribution, and Workforce & Workplace. Now, these benefits include previously non-covered procedures such as facial feminization surgery, thyrochondroplasty, electrolysis and more.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

If you are a retailer looking to discover new products to sell or improve your merchandising and vendor management efficiency, or if you are brand looking to increase sales and distribution or improve your sales, order management, and inventory process, check out www.sorced.com. Global Womens Journey. Community Events. Got an event?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then now you're faced with this global pandemic, which is immediately driving your costs up, immediately driving your impact up, immediately making new things possible. The team's been energized and excited to have a role to play in this global pandemic. It's such an unlikely success that perhaps we should attribute it to aliens.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I There’s a particularly acute leak in the pipeline for non-traditional founders. Several folks asked that I share our story here.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D. This solution is based on a large variety of satellite beams. justAdTV Ltd - justAd.TV

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete. We grew really fast for a few years.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Free often wins versus buying a competing product. As such, multi-channel analysis and attribution modelling is non-existent in the platform. They offer a level of functionality that is globally on par with them for testing, but at a lower price level once you go above the free level offered by Optimizely.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Non of this academic stuff. Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. Typically it goes one lead: $200K+, couple medium pro’s: $50-$100K, then strategic guys at $25K (sometimes $10K for ultra strategic / domain expertise / distribution / etc). 2) Do less and iterate. P.S. Do #1.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. For a flooring company I worked with, that white whale was Hilton Hotels: one company in charge of flooring purchases for 14 global brands across 5,000 locations.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

That’s becoming increasingly common for non prime-focused products like Cash App or Stash. And that’s to say nothing of consumer-friendly features offered by some of the newer entrants, such as overdraft protection. Source: S&P Global So why the large gap in feature sets? But most of all, it will benefit us as consumers.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over. This might just change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2016

These normally require an innovative new business model, non-linear thinking for marketing, sales, and distribution. Add dynamically to the range of competencies in the venture. Real breakthroughs in business, as well as in technology, usually start with BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals).

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. The challenge for entrepreneurs will be to create places to teach non-techies of its value, show them how to wrestle control of it and provide platforms to commercialise it.

Technical Review 48

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. The challenge for entrepreneurs will be to create places to teach non-techies of its value, show them how to wrestle control of it and provide platforms to commercialise it.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48