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Uber-like ride-sharing business plans Guam launch in April

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Uber-like ride-sharing business plans Guam launch in April
On its website, the company provides the details on how riders and drivers can participate. Stroll Guam plans to roll out its ride-sharing app in multiple languages including in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Tagalog. Having the app available …
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Colorful business plan
The 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student has hired a team of six employees, including painters, and hopes to add more to his exterior painting business. Mauland, a 2015 West Bend West High School graduate, has an internship with College …
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What's Coming: April 17, 2014

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What's Coming: April 17, 2014
Internet for Beginners, Fridays, 11 a.m., Lewisboro Library, 15 Main St., South Salem. Registration: … Give back through a donation of your time, money, or ideas to Bedford Audubon! … Free presentation for job seekers, career changers, or business …
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Community Notes: April 4, 2014
Model Railroad Club Meets — The Columbia Northwestern Model Railroading Club meets at 1 p.m. Saturday in Hammond to exchange stories and ideas and to enjoy running trains on an HO-scale layout. For information, call Don Carter at …. All are welcome …
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Auburn-area community calendar | April 2

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Auburn-area community calendar | April 2
Providing innovative strategies to narrow the opportunity gap by offering insights to support the recruitment and retention of teachers of color. Keynote speaker: 2013 National Teacher of the Year Jeff Charbonneau, of Zillah ….. Microsoft PowerPoint …
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Sources Sought Notice – D– TAC-14-13810 DecisionSim Software Renewal
This Request for Information (RFI) is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. … and Research Network (SimLEARN) is a national …
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Lean Kanban North America Finalizes Speaker Lineup for April Management Conference

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Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

Lean Kanban North America 2013, part of the global conference series of the largest, highest quality Kanban events in the world, announces the final lineup of speakers for its management conference taking place April 28-May 2 in Chicago.

Organized by Lean-Kanban University (LKU), Lean Kanban North America is an international gathering of professionals who realize the value of Lean thinking. This year’s conference features the next wave of ideas on measurement, psychology of change, Kanban at scale, risk management, and core foundations of Kanban.

The event is for managers, developers, and change agents who value smart thinking, voracious learning, and constant improvement in the workplace. Attendees will meet and mingle with thought leaders, worldwide experts and Brickell Key Award winners who are the most-respected Lean and Kanban experts all sharing their knowledge under one roof.

Lean Kanban North America Keynote Speakers include:


    Bob Lewis, opening keynote and InfoWorld columnist, will convey why “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” This entertaining and thought-provoking talk explains what’s so disastrous about standard models for running IT organizations. Lewis presents a compelling alternative that won’t just drive better results, for IT and for the business it serves, but will make the job of leading and working in IT more satisfying and enjoyable as well.

    Douglas Hubbard, inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and Chicago-based author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, will describe how it is possible to measure any “intangible,” to think of risk like an actuary, and how to look at investment portfolios from a risk/return point-of-view.

    Stephen Parry is an international leader and strategist on the creation of service enterprises that are adaptive, innovative and engaging. This presentation based on the most recent research from work psychology will provide counter intuitive insights into the ‘industrial management’ mind set, its impact on the design of work and management behaviors.

Lean Kanban North America will feature nine renowned authors on the Main Stage, plus more than 40 invited speakers on six tracks that include Economics & Risk; Kanban at Scale; Kanban Foundations; Psychology & Sociology; Simulation, Games & Measurement; and The Change Agent.

In addition to the main program, LKNA13 authors, speakers and thought leaders will lead full-day Lean Tutorials – one-day or two-day interactive classes designed to provide participants with practical, hands-on knowledge they can use right away on Lean projects.

Attendees will also enjoy an additional 18 presenters with LKNA’s exciting and unique crowd-sourced Ignite talks that will drive the Lean Kanban conversation forward.

Conferences in the Lean Kanban global series provide unique training presentations and focus on helping IT groups within organizations to lower risk and improve predictability of delivery. For more information about the global Lean Kanban conference series endorsed by Lean-Kanban University, please contact Janice Linden-Reed, Lean-Kanban University Vice President of Marketing, at janice(at)leankanbanuniversity(dot)com.

About Lean Kanban North America

The Lean Kanban North America conference brings together professionals from around the world who realize the value of Lean thinking. This is the event for technology managers, business leaders, and change agents who want to build quality, predictable delivery, and a culture of continuous improvement into their organizations. The new Lean-Kanban North America conference continues the conversation started at our landmark conferences in Miami (2009), Atlanta (2010), Long Beach (2011), and Boston (2012). For more information and to register, please visit lkna.leankanban.com. You can also join the Lean Kanban North America discussion on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Lean-Kanban University

Lean-Kanban University (LKU) works to assure the highest quality coaching and training on Kanban for knowledge work and service work worldwide. LKU Accredited Kanban Training™ program partners and Kanban Coaching Professionals™ follow the Kanban Method for evolutionary organizational change as originally developed by David J. Anderson.

The Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program exists to provide confidence to consumers about the quality of the Kanban training that they will receive. The program establishes the quality of Kanban training based on the status of 1) the organization, 2) the individual trainer, and 3) the training curriculum. Member organizations, their trainers and their training curriculums must meet the established criteria in all three areas in order to call their Kanban training “accredited” under the terms of the program.

For more information on Lean Kanban University programs, please visit leankanbanuniversity.com.







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Crowd-funding StartUp Expo & Conference | Thursday April 4-5, 2013 Palo Alto, Ca

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Crowd-funding StartUp Expo & Conference | Thursday April 4-5, 2013 Palo Alto, Ca

On April 4th and 5th 2013, SVCROWDFUND is organizing a conference in Silicon Valley, a year after President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups …
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I have a crowd funding campaign on Indeigogo to raise the capital to start a multi-gene genetic testing company which will provide multi-gene tests to provid…
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Top April Fools' Day campaigns

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Top April Fools' Day campaigns
We already know good things come in small packages, but with Cooper T customers benefitting from up to 40 miles per cup, we are delighted to have the opportunity to bring this car to market.” …. The challenges will include a Battlefield 4 showdown to …
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Bits | Cloud Computing's Watershed Week
In the technology world, March 2014 went out like a plan. It may be no accident that in the last week of the year's first quarter there were … Rather, they were more like deals that were first hatched in late 2013 as strategic plays for the coming …
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Ronald Kozlin Joins Nextech Systems' Leadership Team as Chief Financial Officer
TAMPA, FL–(Marketwired – April 02, 2014) – Nextech, a leading provider of fully integrated electronic medical records (EMR), practice management, and marketing software solutions for specialty physician practices, today announced the appointment of …
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Jimi Hendrix is the #1 Musician Fans Would Like to See at Coachella 2013 According to Ranker's April Rankings of Musicians You'd Want to See Perform as Holograms

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2013

Jimi Hendrix holds a narrow lead over Freddie Mercury as the musician most fans would like to see perform as a hologram at the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival on Ranker’s “Dead Musicians You’d Like To See Perform At Coachella” list, a a crowd-sourced list on the consumer opinions website, Ranker.com. More than 1200 people have voted on the list as of April 2013 and the variety of performers fans would like to see return to the stage after death are as varied as the acts at this year’s festival. Fans would have the hologram concept, which resurrected slain rapper 2-Pac during Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg’s set at the 2012 Festival, bring back performers from Bob Marley to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to entertain the masses in the Indio desert.

The rest of the Top 10 Dead Performers Who Should Be Holograms are as follows:

1) Jimi Hendrix

2) Freddie Mercury

3) Bob Marley

4) John Lennon

5) Johnny Cash

6) Jim Morrison

7) Elvis Presley

8) Kurt Cobain

9) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10) The Beatles

Music enthusiast Brian Gilmore enjoyed the Tupac hologram last year, but doesn’t think all music legends would benefit from digital reanimation. Said Gilmore, “It would be great to see Freddie Mercury on stage again, but there’s no way a hologram could capture his charisma”.

See the full list of Performers Who Should Be Holograms, as well as 1000’s of other Music lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier data source for aggregated consumer opinions. Over seven million people go to Ranker each month to view, rank and vote their opinions on matters both entertaining and practical. Ranker’s proprietary algorithms and datacentric approach to opinion aggregation deliver the most credible answers from “the best” to “the worst” across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







Searching for the future leaders in Digital Tech; Call for Applications for 2014 Digital Tech Summit held in London, April 23-24, 2014: Deadline February 16

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Geneva, Switzerland – Brussels, Belgium – London, Great Britain (PRWEB UK) 18 December 2013

Co President of the Summit, Baruk Pilo from ICON Corporate Finance in London said: “We will be focusing on four major sectors within the Summit where we foresee new disruptive technologies emerging: Financial Technologies; Security and Cyber security; Web, Mobility and Cloud, SaaS and Big Data. Digital Tech is a very exciting sector and in the future we will be seeing new huge business opportunities in very different fields such as: connected consumer objects, civilian drones, mobile payments, new remittance services – the list is endless. Our goal for this event is to select the top 20 European startups in these four hot sectors and invite corporate companies and Strategic Investors to deliver their perspectives for disruptive technologies and new business opportunities. It will be an opportunity for Entrepreneurs to meet tier one investors and potential strategic partners and for large enterprises and VC’s to engage with the best in class European, Israeli and Russian start-ups.”

Company Registration – why should you register?

No charge to apply
No charge for selected companies to attend the event and present – selection is merit only based
Companies are selected by an expert selection committee, according to their potential market impact
Selected companies will present to a group of 100+ global investment professionals, advisors and corporates.
Companies regardless of selection will be seen by a group of top level investors (the selection committee) and have the opportunity to be included in the delegate binder to further promote their offering.

Registration

Applicants can register for the Summit at http://www.digitaltechsummit.eu

As part of the process applicants must submit a corporate presentation together with the registration form. The deadline for applications is February 16.

Selection Criteria

Applicants will be assessed on the uniqueness of their technology, the strength of their business model, vision, and capability to execute on the business plan and the quality and track record of their management. Submissions will be reviewed by the selection committee, which is comprised of senior business leaders from various backgrounds including venture capital, technology, research and economic promotion.

Rewards for Finalists

The selected 20 finalists will each have an opportunity to present their business plans to senior partners, vice presidents and CEOs from the global venture capital and technology industry, as well as service providers and academics. In addition, they will benefit from networking opportunities, local and international media exposure and potential opportunities to secure funding.

Previous Summit attendees have included senior representatives of most major investment firms and corporates:

Almaz Capital, Ambient Sound Investments, Anecova, Atlantic Bridge Investments, Balderton Capital, CDC Innovations, Clipperton Finance, Conor Venture Partners, DFJ Esprit, DN Capital, eBay, Endeavour Vision, EQT, FDI Internet & Mobile, Fidelity Growth Partners, Finnvera Venture Capital, GIMV, Goetz Partners, Google, Growthpoint Technology Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Idinvest Partners, iGlobe Partners, Index Ventures, Intesa Sanpaolo, IQ Capital Partners, Iris Capital, Kreos Capital, Nauta Capital, Northzone Ventures, Open Ocean Capital, Open Text, Opera Capital Partners, Partech, Pictet, Quantam Wave Capital, Restoration Partners, Richmond Park Partners, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Runa Capital, Sardis Capital, Schroder & Co Bank, Scottish Equity Partners, Seed Capital Management, Serena Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Sony Ericsson, Spintop Ventures, Startup.co.uk, Sunstone Capital, Ventech, Vodafone Ventures, Wellington Partners.

Many companies that have presented at previous Summits have either been acquired or raised more significant funding. Some notable examples include:

    Shutl acquired by Ebay (2013)
    Aloqua acquired by Motorla (2010)
    Brands for Friends acquired by Ebay (2010) for €150million
    Procedural acquired by Esri (2011)
    MexAd acquired by DataXu (2012)
    Sapato.ru acquired by OZON.ru (2012)
    More than $ 300million raised in funding for companies including:
        iZettle, badoo, Klarna, Mister Spex, Silk, StrikeAd, Wrapp,…

About the Tech Tour

The Tech Tour was founded in Geneva in 1998 in response to the growing interest in emerging technology companies in various European regions. The Tech Tour is an independent, not-for-profit organization composed of key contributors to the high technology industry. The organization recognizes that continued prosperity in Europe lies in its ability to transform today’s innovative projects into tomorrow’s global technology leaders.

http://www.techtour.com

About the International Venture Club

The International Venture Club was founded in 2011 as the collaborative platform of leading venture investors promoting successful international investments. Its objectives are to 1) share better practices, 2) build co-investor trust and relations, 3) foster new funding and investment opportunities through joint actions and PR, 4) grow promising companies with corporate partners and co-investors and 5) keep a smart window and support to emerging innovative companies.

http://www.iventureclub.com

Media Contacts:

Tanja Baltus

International Venture Club

+32 (0) 2 643 36 94

tanja(at)iventureclub(dot)com

Laurian Harry

Tech Tour

+41 22 544 60 63

laurian(at)techtour(dot)com

Bond PR

Vanessa Marcie

+44 20 7409 5240

Vanessa(at)bondpr(dot)com







San Francisco Tops Ranker's April Rankings of America's Coolest Cities

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2013

San Francisco holds a narrow lead over New York City as the #1 coolest city on Ranker’s “America’s Coolest Cities” list, a crowd-sourced list on the consumer opinions website, Ranker.com. More than 1,000 people have voted on the list as of April, 2013 and the gap between the cities competing for “Coolest City in the US” is smaller than Rhode Island. The top 10 has cities representing both coasts, the South, and the Midwest while seemingly thriving cities like Los Angeles and Miami not even making the Top 10.

The rest of the Top 10 Coolest Cities in US are as follows:

1) San Francisco

2) New York City

3) Boston

4) Seattle

5) New Orleans

6) Chicago

7) Austin

8) Portland

9) Honolulu

10) Las Vegas

David Kevoe, who was born on the East Coast but settled in LA, thinks show business’s biggest city ranks lower on the list because “LA is the place I would want to live mainly due to the sun and the weather, but not that much fun to visit compared to these other cities”. Kevoe’s pick for #1 city is Las Vegas due mostly to the entertainment value offered.

See the full list of Awesome US Cities, as well as 1,000’s of other Travel lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier data source for aggregated consumer opinions. Over seven million people go to Ranker each month to view, rank and vote their opinions on matters both entertaining and practical. Ranker’s proprietary algorithms and datacentric approach to opinion aggregation deliver the most credible answers from “the best” to “the worst” across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Announces Advisory Board and Call for Speakers for Toronto Conference, April 28-29th, 2011

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(PRWEB) November 2, 2010

Today, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit announced the call for Speakers for its Toronto, Ontario conference. Taking place April 28 and 29, 2011, the Toronto event aims to build upon the success and lessons learned in 2010, a year where marketers acted with precision focus on bottom line results and measurable ROI.

Two-day Summit April 28 and 29th: Marketers, ecommerce executives, communications professionals, marketing technology managers and analysts will learn from over 40 industry experts who will share their experience and deliver real-life case studies and insights. Attendees will gain firsthand knowledge from in-depth sessions, panel discussions and technology labs.

The 2011 Toronto eMetrics Summit expands its focus to include media analytics and the new future of audience measurement. Executives in audience development, marketing science and digital advertising will share ideas, knowledge and solutions as to how media is measured in Canada and the U.S. Senior executives from global media groups will discuss new methods and technologies for measuring both content and audiences cross-media, cross-platform; theyll discuss new currencies and opportunities for measuring and monetizing content across Mobile, Web and digital TV. The Media Analytics track adds a new dimension to the Toronto eMetrics Summit, all of which is aimed at helping managers improve the results of their digital marketing and communications investment and making marketing technology more efficient. The Toronto Summit delivers five tracks over two days:

1.