ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. It took two years, but a team finally won. Netflix paid the bounty—then ignored the code. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. Not only did the winning prediction engine fail to scale economically, it also addressed an outdated problem: The shift from mail to streaming during th

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2018

According to the most recent edition of PitchBook’s Venture Monitor, the first half of 2018 saw 94 investment deals surpassing the $100 million mark, continuing a trend in which late-stage successful startups and larger companies receive the lion’s share of VC funding allocations. That’s not to say that seed rounds for startups don’t get VC investment, but by […].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

by Sabine Ghali, Director at Buttonwood Property Management. It can be hard to come to terms with the fact that your startup business – the one you put so much time and energy into building – isn’t working. It can be even harder to come up figuring out what exactly is preventing your success. There are times in business when you simply have to let a project die and move on to the next one, but you shouldn’t take that dramatic of a step until you try out these 5 ideas for bringing life back int

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re currently in the process of considering whether or not you have a viable career as a painter and decorator, then you’re probably already aware of some of the basic requirements. For those with a love of creativity and DIY, home decorating can be a very rewarding career, while also being a potentially high-profit business venture as well.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As a beginner-level investor, you may have many questions going into the world of investing. How do I research where to invest? How do stocks make money ? Where do I begin? Here are a few tips to help you get started in investing. #1 Investing for the Long Run, Not the Short Term. First thing’s first: What are you trying to achieve? Before you begin investing, you want to set some goals.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Austin’s universities play a critical role in the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. At the first university tract during Austin Startup Week, Ashley Jennings, program manager in the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin, led a panel discussion on the importance of entrepreneurship on campus with experts from local universities.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2018

ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings are a great way for companies to launch off their cryptocurrency projects. An ICO offers companies and buyers the chance to create value for any project before it formally enters the market. Source: Pexels. ICOs are distinct from regulated equity share sales since they can be purchased without mediation from brokers. Further, you can buy them from anywhere in the world.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Given how important business email is for marketing and communications, here are three reasons why you should not use Gmail for business.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2014, Marc MacLeod worked as an independent software consultant in Los Angeles building Application Programming Interfaces, known as APIs, for companies. MacLeod noticed that many of the APIs, which are systems of tools and resources in an operating system that enable developers to create software applications, lacked documentation and were poorly built.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Developing a mobile app? Consider key trends and lessons learned as you create mobile apps to meet the needs of consumers across the globe.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 4, 2018

It’s fall and it’s time to go back to school. If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) is offering three public courses in late October and early November. Click on the course title to register. Don’t wait to register, these are popular offerings. .

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 4, 2018

First, there are at least three types of exits. I’ve been involved with well over twenty successful exits and four initial public offerings over the years, some of them with monstrous gains, some more modest. Then in addition, there are the exits that returned some portion of capital, but nothing more. And finally, there are the thirty-plus sad exits that were complete write-offs for the investors, sometimes regaining some portion of note-holder or creditor money in the process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The human brain is hardwired to make generalizations. Generalizations allow us to process the truly colossal amounts of input our brains encounter every day. They’re necessary for us to function and not be overwhelmed by data. Generalizations also help by creating shortcuts in our brains. Unfortunately, those shortcuts are a double-edged sword.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This op-ed by ATA’s executive director, David Edmonson, originally ran in the Austin American-Statesman on Thursday, September 27, 2018. I read the Statesman ’s article about the slow pace of small cell deployment?—?the necessary precursor to our wireless 5G future?—?and felt frustrated. How can our vibrant, high-tech, pioneering city be falling behind on such a crucial front?

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

It’s easy to think machines have some kind of impartiality to them given they are, well, machines. But anything built by humans has a human inside it. Algorithms are no different, and just like us, they are filled with bias. Algorithm – a word once confined to University mathematics departments and computer labs – now takes pride of place in every second tech news article, determines what you see online and why you received this email at 7am Australian Eastern Standard Time.

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