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Research Shows Closing the Feedback Loop Leads to Increased Satisfaction Ratings, Harvard Business School Study Reveals Higher Yelp Scores Yield 5 to 9 Percent Revenue Increases
This article originally appeared on Business Wire, June 19, 2014.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DropThought Inc., the leading instant feedback platform that enables businesses to […]
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By Samir Kaji. This article originally appeared on PEVC Banker, June 2, 2014.
We recently sat down with Rob Siegel, General Partner at XSeed Capital, a seed fund based out of Portola Valley, to discuss founding team cohesion and the role it plays in a company’s success. Rob’s investment areas include enterprise software, business operations where […]
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By Jonathan Shieber. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch, May 29, 2014.
While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to make sense of that data once it’s collected, there’s a divide that separates the […]
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By Kia Kokalitcheva. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, May 20, 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO — A statistical model is not a product — yet.
Data nerds might be incredibly good at creating fancy datamodels and tools, but if they want to take those skills and create a company, they need to make […]
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By Patricia Kutza. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, May 19, 2014.
Backers say digital media is in the DNA of a successful capital venture
Between the four of them, they’ve structured deals for the likes of Vindicia, Garage.com, Sun Microsystems and Pixim. At the final and most-anticipated panel of the Legal Frontiers […]
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By Brian R. Fitzgerald. This article originally appeared on Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2014.
The patent war of attrition between Apple and Samsung may come across like the singular struggle over tech innovation, but court fights about intellectual property are a regular part of life in the tech industry.
Apple was sued 59 times in […]
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By Rakesh Sharma. This article originally appeared on Forbes, May 14, 2014.
Big data meets patent litigation in legal analytics firm Lex Machina‘s report about 2013 in review. The report, which was released earlier this week, trots out interesting, though unsurprising, statistics.
For example, the number of new patent cases in district courts […]
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This article originally appeared on PEVC Dow Jones VentureWire, May 6, 2014.
Operations automation startup StackStorm emerged from stealth mode with funding from xSeed Capital to introduce a private beta program for the company’s first product.
The company is focused on developing self-driving data centers that learn how to operate more efficiently. It is currently focused […]
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By Jordan Novet. This article originally appeared on VentureBeat, May 5, 2014.
If you really must maintain your own data center, it’s nice if you can minimize the number of people who work there. A startup called StackStorm wants to help you do that.
Stackstorm, which has operated in stealth mode until today, intends […]
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Lex Machina uses predictive analytics to harness data in IP cases, helping lawyers create litigation strategies
By Sean Doherty. This article originally appeared on Law Technology News, April 11, 2014.
A task legion to intellectual property lawyers is how to develop a litigation strategy that factors in all the complexity of a typical IP case, including […]
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