Tag: numbers
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Your 2014 GSS Start-Up Competition Finalists
The Global Sports Symposium (GSS) Pitch Competition gives sport start-ups crucial exposure to top agencies, teams, leagues, and entrepreneurs in the sports industry plus the chance to win up to one month’s worth of advisory services from 1010 Capital, a global merchant bank that focuses on incubating, advising and investing in consumer brands and ventures…
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Sports Techie Community ScoreBig On Tickets For Sport, Concerts And Theater Events
ScoreBig provided complementary concert or sports event tickets at ScoreBig.com for me to experience and review their service via a Sports Techie community blog. I was given a $100 voucher to go online and purchase tickets for any sporting events, concerts or shows on the ScoreBig site. I researched the Seattle professional sports calendar and decided…
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Alchemy Global Crowdfunding Platform First In Sports and Entertainment Space
Alchemy Global launched a Sports and Entertainment Crowdfunding Platform for Accredited Investors today in Charleston, South Carolina. The Sports Techie community blog chatted with Andy Brusman, Founder and CEO at Alchemy Global Holdings, LLC about his startup, their space in the finance Industry and more business expansion strategy. Together with sports legends Greg Norman, Jim…
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BigTeams High School Athletic Websites And Software Company Raises Funds, Hires CEO Clay Walker
BigTeams, one of the fastest growing, easy to use and most comprehensive website and software systems for high school athletics programs today introduced industry veteran Clay Walker as its Chief Executive Officer and also announced an investment round, led by Capital Sports Ventures. Walker is a long-time sports, entertainment and digital innovator hired to lead…
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Technology Helps Sports Fans Defeat Information Overload Via Intel
We sports fans live in a wonderful era in that technology has been tailored to enhance the fan experience using mobile devices and apps to deliver targeted content. I wrote a contribution blog for iQ by Intel that looked at Thuuz, the Pandora of Sports, and how they are pioneering the sports tech space…
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The Masters Social Media Players, Sponsorship Campaigns And Topics Leaderboard
The 2014 PGA Tour Majors began this past weekend with 80-year old epic golf event, The Masters. The fan experience at Augusta National has been evolving to keep up with the pace of our mobile society while retaining decade old traditions like the main scoreboard. Social media channels are the foremost way for a fan…
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Swish Analytics Algorithmic Sports, Predictions And Betting Recommendations At BetBuckets
Swish Analytics Inc., is a sports technology startup based in San Francisco that developed algorithmic sports, predictions and betting recommendations. The three founders raised $300K in March from a group of private angel investors to deliver algorithmic sports predictions to bettors and fans in the underserved data science field. The ground-breaking movie Moneyball, opened the public’s…
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Win 15K When You Predict the Best March Madness Bracket Data Set
Intel and Kaggle have teamed up to introduce the new March Madness Learning Mania competition. The winner of this NCAA tournament based contest earns $15,000, may that be a Sports Techie community blog reader. I had a terrific opportunity to learn about Kaggle’s competition-based platform and Intel’s Big Data push towards business applications that can predict…
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March Madness Bracket Hacks And Quicken Loans Tips
The Sports Techie community blog is happy to share insightful and entertaining March Madness tips and Infographic via Stacey Johnson and Bracket Hacks for the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Brackets Challenge with Yahoo Sports for a chance to win one billion dollars. Bracket Hacks Bracket Hacks compiled tips on how to build the ultimate bracket.…
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Deltatre Supports C4 Broadcast Of First Ever UK Winter Paralympic Gold Medal
I sent deltatre a tweet last week asking what was happening with their Sochi 2014 Paralympic coverage and they responded that visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans won the first ever winter Paralympic gold medal for Great Britain. Channel 4, with support from deltatre, was at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Centre in…