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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. People like Paul Singh, Christine Tsai and my old pal Christen O’Brien are great. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

It has a growing curriculum of production-relevant topics such as standards, best practices and guidelines, and also covers topics like economics, CRO and data analysis. For the latter, we established the Appetiser University. Appetiser employees even have weekly exams that ask them to apply their learnings.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Hongkong based startup XQuant, a leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis, won the second prize. So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda.

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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.