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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

R/GA is part of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of four global ad holding companies, and is the most award-winning agency in the digital world today. The Internet has rapidly expanded beyond desktop, server, laptop, and mobile computers and connected itself to many of the different devices in our everyday life.

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A Startup’s First Steps: What’s In A Name?

Gust

Historically, most bricks-and-mortar businesses were named after their founders, and large corporations often have a publicly traded parent company that holds all of the stock in many operating units that have familiar or famous names (e.g., AMR as holding company for American Airlines).

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data.

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How To Test Your Brand Relationship To Real Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups, as well as every existing business, need to realize that this brand perception is becoming more and more driven by their relationships with customers, as well as feedback from other customer brand relationships, made visible on social media and Internet websites like Yelp and Foursquare. According to Chris Malone and Susan T.

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Startups Should Start Saying Goodbye to.com,net and.org Domain Extensions

ReadWriteStart

Domain names — the focal point of the internet. For over 30 years, these domain extensions have been used to house some of the internet’s most recognized websites. In the early days of the Internet, like the 90s and 2000s, you could only choose from these three “dot” domain extensions.

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How To Focus On Relationships To Maximize Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups, as well as every existing business, need to realize that this brand perception is becoming more and more driven by their relationships with customers, as well as feedback from other customer brand relationships, made visible on social media and Internet websites like Yelp and Foursquare. According to Chris Malone and Susan T.