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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.” Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

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