Increasing use of mobile and online tools by consumers means buyer preferences are constantly changing. To keep up, reps are spending an average of 50 percent of their time sifting through department data to find the right info to reach the right target. A new survey by Televerde shows that 60 percent of sales and marketing departments are not on the same page on customer … [More]
CEI’s Maker Lab Advances Manufacturing Opportunity
The new maker lab at the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation is making 3-D printing available, enabling rapid — and affordable — prototyping to local entrepreneurs and startup companies. PADT StartUpLabs opened last month with five portable and six larger 3-D printers and SolidWorks computer-aided design (CAD) software, along with hand tools and light power tools to support … [More]
Streamlining Mobile Communication
Extended email and message “conversations” among multiple parties can get chaotic and confusing. Offering a “chatlet” technology designed to clear the clutter, Beerud Sheth has launched the messaging app Teamchat. The platform allows users to create their own app to be able to summarize and organize messages, including collating responses to different questions, customizing … [More]
Maximize Creativity
SparcIt recently launched a new creativity assessment trainer platform — a service geared primarily toward consultants, experts and workshop facilitators looking to improve the performance of their employees. The first platform that measures and improves creativity, the service was previously in beta testing with more than 25,000 use-cases through IO psychologists, consultants … [More]
Gilded Age
Newly released, the Gild Platform is a first-of-its-kind technology that brings together all the elements companies need for hiring, and applies data science, consumer-friendly technologies and predictive analytics to every phase of the talent acquisition process. The Gild Platform automates this routine process and helps recruiters make better and smarter hiring decisions, … [More]
Translation in Real Time
Translate Your World, Inc. is the first software to enable cross-language communication at full speed in up to 78 languages, and to provide each user with control over the quality and results. Users instantly text and speak in other languages without years of study, because TYWI translates what is spoken in a room or shared on Web conferencing platforms. Additionally, TYWI … [More]
Economic Development Goes Visual
Many cities in Arizona are looking to promote themselves through videos on the subject of economic development and opportunities to attract businesses to their communities. From Gilbert to Surprise and just about each town in between, they have presented a video or two on the economic value of doing business in their particular neck of the woods. Go to YouTube.com and search … [More]
Technology Levels the Playing Field
EZBZ uses technology and the Internet to create a marketplace for businesses that does not hinge on first-page Google placement or the most beautiful website. Consumers go to EZBZ’s site and simply post a query for a product or service, EZBZ identifies and notifies local vendors that offer the product or service via an email or text, and the vendors then have the opportunity to … [More]
The ‘Secret Formula’ of App Success
Applications for mobile devices are proliferating at an almost-exponential rate. Many existing businesses have more than one, and some businesses are created specifically around an app. A study recently released from ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business applies analytic research to replace the crystal ball, crossed fingers and specific-market research business owners and app … [More]
Low-Tech Meets the Cloud
Rocketbook is a simple paper notebook that, with the help of an iOS app, quickly and accurately captures images of pages and files them in cloud storage. The microwave-safe pages are also compatible with the off-the-shelf Pilot FriXion heat-sensitive pens. This allows users to reuse a Rockebook by erasing it in a microwave oven. Joe Lemay started Rocket Innovations with the … [More]
