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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis). Security of user data will also need close care.

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Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

TechCrunch

The real question to ask here is whether re-formatting the data for customer #1527 is really the best way to use the time of a well-paid expert. The average data scientist is paid between $95,000 and $120,000 per year, according to various estimates. The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. As many of us are ex operators I think it intellectually suited us. Kerry brings experience from all parts of the marketing mix.

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Meme Mapping: Learn to Run Better Creative Tests by Reverse-Engineering Hollywood

Reforge

Then dive into how Hollywood uses memes to help people find the right movie to watch, to introduce you to the concept of memetics. Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Polo: One of the drivers of our work as the high commissioner is working with data and the data that we are using is that is the knowledge that the average startup lasts between three to five years — before it goes under or before it is acquired by another company. But also we have a more specific number in Spain.