www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2015

It is the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he had to change his philosophy in order to make this small market team competitive. This is a great movie to watch whether you are at home on the couch or in comfortable seats in movie theaters.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

be the manager and product developer). Leader/Project Manager – Someone in the organization must drive the plan and keep people focused on a daily basis. This may sound funny as many startups don’t make much money at first, but you should have someone managing the books, paying attention to important tax dates and more.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

Other speakers for ACE include Emily Paxhia (Poseidon Asset Management), Patrick Rea (CanopyBoulder), Morris Denton (Compassion Cultivation), Tahira Rehmatullah (MTech Acquisition Corp), Cy Scott (Headset), Keegan Peterson (Wurk), Alex Samuels (The Texas Tribune) and many more.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

and how now the most successful teams are managed not by pep talks and gut but by and through data and metrics. Now, this is where some folks say "enough is enough" and that they long for baseball as it was played and managed in the good old days, by the Tommy Lasordas and Casey Stengels of the world. Some examples: FIFA. read more.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

On the investment side, it means putting in less money, being more on-par with management in terms of rights and preferences, having less control. In some ways it reminds me of that Michael Lewis book Money Ball and how the Oakland A’s found ways to win with a small payroll. Spend nickels like they were manhole covers.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2012

I always like the charming Brad Pitt , and he’s good here in a tailor-made part as Oakland Athletic’s General Manager Billy Beane. What it’s about is the reinvention of how professional baseball teams are managed. Billy Beane, the General Manager, is the innovative change agent or champion.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Emily Paxhia of Poseidon Asset Management and Tahira Rehmatullah of MTech Acquisition Corp will talk about some of the projects that they are most excited about for 2018 and beyond. Join a lively discussion of “ The Cannabis Blockchain Connection ” and how 2018’s hottest technology might combine with 2018’s most interesting regulated product.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Cities that are currently participating in the Startups in Residence program include the California cities of Oakland, San Leandro and San Francisco, and Washington D.C. At the end of 12 weeks, solutions were presented to the mayor and city manager. There are numerous examples of success. Backed by a $1 million grant, Washington, D.C.,

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). One of our investment themes at Homebrew VC is SMBs gaining access to new powerful tech. DB: I’ve thought a lot about this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

At Onyx, he was Director of Sales Operations and managed the national team of sales engineers. Previously, Brad managed Onyx’s Professional Services team and customer base in the western US. The Incredibly Logical Way to Manage Customer Relationships In a perfect world, every customer relationship would be steeped.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. It's not that you don't realize it, it's that people aren't looking at it because a lot of the complexity that makes government hard to manage mostly affects low income people and other people who don't have as much of a political voice. How are you both doing? I feel very lucky.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. The folks running PleaseRobMe.com should really change their focus; other than requiring a Social Security number, it’s hard to imagine much more of a giveaway to an aspiring identity thief in the aisle seat.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects. As simple as it is, the TRL is used to manage funding and go/no decisions for complex programs worldwide. Air Force , then the Army and then the entire U.S. Startup success is all about the team. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. In the instance of a cat cafe, Kristen discussed the difficulty in managing the opening of what is essentially two distinct businesses. How do you open a business unlike any other?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. And that disappointment, I think that is the biggest lift for me right now is to manage my own disappointment.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 9, 2018

It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?” Amazon book description: Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. “I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. So, what are YOUR top 5 books?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

He compared what we as marketers do with data to the way Billy Beane approached managing the Oakland Athletics in Michael Lewis’ book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. I recently spoke with Jeff Allen, a Senior Director at Adobe Analytics , about the role data plays within marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

I mean, one of our first thoughts was, "Gosh, we cannot afford to have part of our company, our drivers, our dishwashers, our production managers, our receivers, we cannot afford to have folks feel like they can't stay home if they're feeling like they might be sick or have symptoms. So there's absolutely no doubt that the need is enormous.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

In the Wealth Management and Financial Planning world, it’s easy to simply use your surname as the name of your company. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento. The Digital Elevator was born from this process. 14 – Regional History.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Mindblown was founded by Jason Young and Tracy Moore, both African-American Harvard graduates. This is a partnership between HBSAANY and the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), the trade association for investment managers focused on the “emerging domestic market” (i.e.,

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