Category: Information Visualization

  • Natural language shopping

    Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding David Meyer, gigaom.com In the devel­op­ment of nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, the seman­tic web and so on, e-com­merce pro­vides a rich breed­ing ground. Com­pa­nies such as Ama­zon and Google always want to find bet­ter ways to learn what it is poten­tial cus­tomers… Natural language comparison service…

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  • Tumblr and NYC ecosystem

    What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem Om Malik, gigaom.com A few weeks after Ken Lerer quit AOL-owned Huff­in­g­ton Post to work on his ven­ture fund Lerer Ven­tures, I stopped by in his office to catch up and talk about the New York land­scape. And dur­ing our con­ver­sa­tion, he point­ed out that New…

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  • Domain name prospecting

    Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name David Teten, forbes.com This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and star­tups; part 1 was “Should a Start­up Spend VC Fund­ing on a Domain Name?”. I’ve writ­ten in the past about how to iden­ti­fy a great start­up oppor­tu­ni­… Build Your Startup On A…

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  • The resume is dead

    Times Have Changed. Your Resume Needs To Change, Too. Rob Asghar, forbes.com The pro­fes­sion­al resume is said to go back to five cen­turies ago, as yet anoth­er inno­va­tion by Leonar­do da Vinci . Dur­ing our own life­times, it’s been a sta­ple of the Age of Bureau­cra­cy, designed to be a bland and stan­dard­ized… Times Have…

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  • Top 10 personal finance books

    Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE These ten books have ten different (and powerful) approaches to accumulating personal wealth. Pre­vi­ous posts have iden­ti­fied the best moti­va­tion­al busi­ness books of all time, and the best eye-opening books for the… Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time http://flip.it/ItKdA http://flip.it/eHCKQ…

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  • Best states for entrepreneurship

    10 Top States for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bill Murphy Jr., inc.com D.C. BILL Recently I told you about the 10 worst states for new business in America. Now here’s where entrepreneurship is thriving. Recent­ly, I told you about the 10 worst states in Amer­i­ca for new busi­ness­es—at least, accord­ing to the… 10 Top States for…

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  • Airbnb lessons on distruption

    Disruption Lessons From Airbnb The Build Network staff, inc.com Your future competitors will likely supply what you do—but from cheaper, off-the-radar sources. There are back­yard busi­ness terms, and there are—how shall we put it?—more ele­vat­ed notions. Any kid with a lemon­ade stand grasps “sup­ply”… Disruption Lessons From Airbnb http://flip.it/4k2ef http://flip.it/tU716 Related articles Disruption Lessons From…

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  • Visualizing changing cost of living vs education

    If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse. The 1970s have strange­ly become, in ret­ro­spect, a gold­en era, at least for…

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  • Tweet yourself to a dream job

    How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you. Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job? That’s a ques­tion Tay­lor Aldredge now… http://flip.it/ZMN7U…

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  • Big consulting firms are acquiring design firms for creative inspiration

    Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves Nathan Hurst, wired.com Accenture announced yesterday it will acquire design firm Fjord, making the consulting firm one of a growing list of multi-faceted companies that are integrating design into their product by buying whole studios. Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves http://flip.it/a6kUX http://flip.it/mzOoo Related articles…

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