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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Some specialize in one arena, like green technology. There’s a battery entrepreneur in Sweden, for example, who’s doing some interesting work on the next generation of batteries. Is there more? Mark Attanasio: Yes, two other points can be more difficult. Not all VC firms are alike or have the same investment philosophy.

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Swedish Start-Up to Fight China’s Polluted Air – But The Movement Is Nation-Wide

YoungUpstarts

Sweden is popular for the recycling and sustainability measures taken throughout the years. Since the ‘90s, when the country first started to recycle what could be recycled, Sweden has evolved so much. In fact, Sweden has exceeded the recycling target set by the Government for 2020 a long time ago. Sustainability as a lifestyle.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. One last note on reporting. Sometimes it makes sense to measure the micro-impact of a micro-change.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

For example, from the outside Sweden and Norway are practically one and the same. I would choose those in the green circle cool flowing thingy… Press "Go To Graph" and … boom! [In ." And imagine how powerful it would be to show this data when you are talking to a CPG client or a branding oriented client.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. Well it will be my job description once my team expands some more and I can delegate some of my daily engineering tasks. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Great post, very educational. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. Twylite makes a good point, what good is a programmer if they dont have the necessary skills to be able to promote and sell their ideas/programs to the world? Hello Eric, Great post.

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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.