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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It's easy to be taken in by the idea of the Butterfly Effect : That a butterfly gently flapping its wings in the jungles of Madagascar can indirectly cause a Typhoon off the coast of Jakarta. It's relevant for marketing and sales because it's an inside scoop about how to manipulate strangers on the sly.

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Michel Ruiz Provides a Needed Diversion: Interview with KaviAR Tech

The Startup Magazine

The concept is very easy to use: once you’ve downloaded the application, you will find a library of destinations, you pick a destination, such as a gorgeous beach in Madagascar or a charming streetscape in Paris, and you set the door in front of you in your living room, garden or home.

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Founder Interview: Michel Ruiz on Augmented Reality and Building the KaviAR Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

AR has many valuable applications and solutions for sales, marketing, customer service and training. AR shortens the sales cycle and simplifies the act of buying. TSM: Sounds like we need a bit more detail, tell us more about what KaviAR does? KaviAR Tech is a laboratory for augmented reality. Quality control?

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

I can ping Madagascar from my desktop in California in 368ms, but it takes 72 hours for a U.S. This supposedly “electronic” network enables people to transfer funds from one bank account to another. The pathetic thing is that this “electronic” network takes three earth days to settle. bank transfer to happen. Guess who controls ACH?

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