The Ultimate 1Mby1M Decision Guide: Mentorship, Access & Personalization

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Making Mass Customization Work: Jodie Fox, CEO of Shoes of Prey (Part 1)

Mass customization has been the holy grail of the fashion industry ever since the Internet was born. Jodie Fox discusses why mass customization is so hard, and how her company is scaling a business that offers custom shoes. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Darren Hill, CEO of WebLinc (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do you do the recommendation on what goes with what? Is that a manual recommendation system or is there technology that enables scaling of something like that? Darren Hill: It’s a mix. There are several data points that go into it such as what people have bought and what they have looked at. That’s the easy

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2012: GloMantra, Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India

I made a prediction about 2012 being the year when personalization technologies start to find their stride. GloMantra, Inc. is a company that specializes in personalization technology and social commerce solutions for e-commerce and online media companies. GloMantra understands the intent of consumers and the context of their need, and uses them to provide personalized

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Personalization Will Make Strides in 2012

Trust Apple to show the way. Yes, again! With Siri, personalization makes a significant leap forward, and now the media is abuzz with other possibilities – from Siri on Apple’s version of the television, to Best Buy’s catalog now available on iOS, and for Siri to help shoppers shop at BestBuy. All this is very

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: xMatters ,Pleasanton, California

What matters to you right now? Whatever the context, that’s the question xMatters tries to answer. xMatters (formerly known as AlarmPoint Systems) is a pioneer in relevance engines. As AlarmPoint, the company built a reputation as a provider of IT alerting solutions. Now, it has broadened its scope and developed relevance engines, a new technology

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Blue Nile Struggles Amidst Luxury Industry Collapse

MasterCard’s SpendingPulse recently reported that the 34% decline in sales of luxury items was the highest year-on-year decline of any retail category during the holiday season and that the reduction was led by falling jewelry sales. In such conditions, it is not surprising that Blue Nile (NILE) recently announced a lackluster Q4 performance.

Deal Radar 2008: Pandora

Pandora Media, based in Oakland, California, is an Internet radio web site. Founded by Tim Westergren in 2000, it was formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project, a collection of songs that have been analyzed by trained musicians.