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Startup Pains & Pleasures #1 - Funding
People often ask me, what are the three hardest things about a startup? Raising money, uncovering cash and finding funds – without a doubt, this is the single hardest issue. A variety of factors...
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Startup Pains & Pleasures #2 - Axiomatic HR
As I mentioned in my last blog (Startup Pains & Pleasures #1 – Funding), I had set out to start up a real business and not a garage operation. Therefore, I spent a considerable amount of time...
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Startup Pains & Pleasures #3 - Workplace Creativity
Before I discuss creativity in the workplace, let me dwell on some topics related to “Axiomatic” HR from last week’s blog. I encourage you to check out my readers’ comments also.First of all, “Company...
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Startup Pains & Pleasures #4: Workplace Creativity & Fermi Problems
In my blog last week, I talked about my everyday creativity “trick” - if you cannot solve a problem, find an approximation of the problem that you can solve. If this solution is adequate, meaning it is...
View ArticleDigital Signage the Next Medium?
Advertisers are always looking for ways to reach your eyeballs. But simply entering our field of vision is just the first step. The advertisement should engage us, be relevant to our situation and help...
View ArticleGoogle Googly
I am sure you are as much of a Google watcher as I am. I have read various books about Google over the years but the most recent one from Ken Auletta (“Googled: The End of the World as We Know It”, Nov...
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Google Neuroscience
Following up on my last blog on “Google Googly” (http://pgmadblog.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html), I take a deeper look at why the Google business model works and what other businesses can learn...
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Jello Mountain Approach to Product Innovation
In my forthcoming book, “Innovative Kids: A Workbook for 8 to 12 Year-olds”, I explain both invention and innovation to kids and their parents. USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) has conveniently...
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“So-Mo-Clo Framework for CUS”
Dr. PG Madhavan is CTO at Symphony Teleca Corp for the ISV division. Previously, he was the CTO & VP Engineering for Solavei LLC and the Associate Vice President--Technical Advisory for Global...
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Cognitive Resonance & Business Decisions
Dr. PG Madhavan is CTO at Symphony Teleca Corp for the ISV division. Previously, he was the CTO & VP Engineering for Solavei LLC and the Associate Vice President--Technical Advisory for Global...
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What does ‘Emergent Properties in Network Dynamics’ have to do with Shopping?
Dr. PG Madhavan was CTO Software Solutions at Symphony Teleca Corp. Previously, he was the CTO & VP Engineering for Solavei LLC and the Associate Vice President--Technical Advisory for Global Logic...
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Emergent Marketing: A New Force in Social Commerce
Dr. PG Madhavan was CTO Software Solutions at Symphony Teleca Corp. Previously, he was the CTO & VP Engineering for Solavei LLC and the Associate Vice President--Technical Advisory for Global Logic...
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“Flow at Work” – not Workflow!
Did you watch the Obama-Romney second debate? On the “feisty-ness” meter, Obama started slow and ramped up to a higher level of controlled feistiness by the second half. Obama’s facial expression...
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Analytics: New Insights & Actions in Brief
Facebook connected us in a vast network – this is only a first step. The deep reason for the fascination with social networking can be understood from an example. Shoppers are enmeshed in an...
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Network Dynamics & Coupling: Shannon’s Reverie Reprised . . . updated
Shannon’s (fictional) Reverie . . .Claude Shannon woke up one morning and said to himself, “Think of how our brains operate – it habituates to repeated stimuli but pays attention to a rare stimulus;...
View ArticleParlor Games, Compressive Sensing, Data Analytics . . . & small BIG Data?
Parlor Game . . . Surely, you have been part of a “guessing game” at a dinner party. Someone says, “Think of 10 numbers and tell me their sum and then tell me 2 of the 10 numbers; I will tell you the...
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Social Network Theory
Social Network TheoryIn the last few decades, interest in Social Networks has seen explosive growth with Facebook being the poster child. Indeed work had gone on before that time in Physics especially...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics – Where from and where to?
Dr. PG Madhavan developed his expertise in analytics as an EECS Professor, Computational Neuroscience researcher, Bell Labs MTS, Microsoft Architect and startup CEO. Overall, he has extensive...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics Automation
There is much discussion about whether Predictive Analytics (PA) can be automated or not. This is a false dichotomy.Predictive Analytics is a strange beast - it needs to be ‘learned by learning‘ and...
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X-Event Marketing
Dr. PG Madhavan developed his expertise in Data Analytics as an EECS Professor, Computational Neuroscience researcher, Bell Labs MTS, Microsoft Architect and startup CEO. Overall, he has extensive...
View ArticleDoing a Startup is like doing a Ph.D.?
Quote from ThePmarca Blog Archives, Marc Andreessen:“You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks...
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“Tanpin Kanri” is the next “Kaizen”!
“Tanpin Kanri” is the next “Kaizen”!Does this spell the death of Retail Category Management as we know it?!Highlights: Tanpin Kanri will be the next big business process/ philosophy export out of Japan...
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“IA not AI” in Retail Commerce – Enhanced Tanpin Kanri
Highlights: Enhanced Tanpin Kanri is a specific example of Intelligence Augmentation. Store staff's local knowledge and engagement with their shoppers cannot be replaced; but Big Data & Analytics...
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Unifying Machine Learning to create breakthrough perspectives
Machine Learning – a unifying perspective & new pathsPG Madhavan, Ph.D.Chairman, Syzen Analytics, Inc., Seattle, WA, USApgmad@syzenanalytics.comDr. PG Madhavan is the Founder of Syzen Analytics,...
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Analytics Made Simple
Analytics Made SimplePG Madhavan, Ph.D.Chief Algorist, Syzen Analytics, Inc.Seattle, WA, USABrief bio:PG developed his expertise as an EECS Professor, Computational Neuroscience researcher, Bell labs...
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