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isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=264</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a Monoprice Mini Delta 3D printer, and I was immediately impressed with how low the barrier to entry has become for high-quality home 3D printing. I plugged it in, and it instantly produced a flawless Baymax from Big Hero 6 that came preloaded on the SD card. However, after a few prints, [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>Competing on Analytics and Flashcards</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/competing-on-analytics-and-flashcards/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:27:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[BIA 6300]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business School]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-BIA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=255</guid> <description><![CDATA[A recent venture finance funding that made a lot of VC news highlights was a 20M series B funding round for Quizlet. The series B round accounts for a large portion of Quizlet’s total funding, which is now approximately 32M. Essentially, Quizlet is an online flashcard service that allows users to read and test their [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>Fishing for Insight</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/fishing-for-insight/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 22:24:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[BIA 6300]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-BIA]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=253</guid> <description><![CDATA[Continuing the trend of analyzing front-running machine learning and business intellige198nce applications in startup companies, this week I will be commenting on a startup named Aquabyte. This is a particularly applicable startup to BIA 6300 because they are addressing a problem on the frontier of big data: unstructured data. In the case of Aquabyte, they [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>Predictability is Key for Consumer Satisfaction</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/predictability-is-key-for-consumer-satisfaction/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[BIA 6300]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business School]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-BIA]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=251</guid> <description><![CDATA[Consumers like predictable bills. It is always an unpleasant feeling when you receive an unexpected overage charge on a phone bill, or a higher than average water bill. A recent article by Business Wire highlights a company named Bidgely that capitalizes on this consumer desire. Essentially, Bidgely collects utility usage data and gives users actionable [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>Article Review: TechCrunch Deal Sourcing</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/article-review-techcrunch-deal-sourcing/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:20:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[BIA 6300]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business School]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-BIA]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=248</guid> <description><![CDATA[An article TechCrunch published on December 21st highlights a new venture capital fund in Berlin, Fly Ventures, that is utilizing machine learning to deal source new companies.  In the past, I have heard of venture funds utilizing mathematical modeling to run Monte-Carlo simulations that estimate the necessary portfolio size to be profitable with a random [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>The Art of Venture Capital Meshed with the Science of Business Intelligence: A Dynamic Duo</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/venturecapitalandbusinessintelligence/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:35:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[BIA 6300]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business School]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MS-BIA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=239</guid> <description><![CDATA[Venture capital is often lightheartedly referred to as an art, not a science. It is extremely hard to quantify the ideal investment because startups operate in emerging markets with very few concrete and calculable insights. Oftentimes this difficulty leads venture capitalists to work on gut-instinct, not data-driven insights. However, to succeed in an ever-competitive market, [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>DECA ICDC &#8211; Anaheim California</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/deca-icdc-anaheim-california/</link> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:04:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Projects & Updates]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=135</guid> <description><![CDATA[In April of 2017, my partner Jameson Howard and I competed in Sports Entertainment and Marketing at the international DECA conference. This is the 2nd time William Jewell College has attended DECA ICDC with the relatively new formation of our chapter. We placed as finalists (top 14 teams) out of roughly 60 teams that were [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>3D Printed Economic Models</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/3d-printed-economic-models/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:01:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Projects & Updates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=129</guid> <description><![CDATA[Above are sample images of prints of physical representations of economic indicators. One day in spring of 2017 after macroeconomics class with Dr. Bots, I researched 3D printing a map of varying height &#8211; I found color-coordinated images that were representative of 2 categories: unemployment and GDP per capita. Then, I converted the images to [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>PhysCon 2016</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/physcon-2016/</link> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2016 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Projects & Updates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=148</guid> <description><![CDATA[I was fortunate enough to attend the 2016 Quadrennial Physics conference in San Francisco, California. Over a thousand undergraduate physics students from across the world attended 2016 PhysCon (largest undergraduate physics conference). During the few days I spent there, I was able to hear lectures from world renown physics researchers including: Jocelyn Bell Burnell &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> <item><title>National Undergraduate Research Observatory &#8211; Flagstaff, AZ</title><link>https://jacobdice.com/national-undergraduate-research-observatory-flagstaff-az/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Dice]]></dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Projects & Updates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">https://jacobdice.com/?p=175</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2016, I traveled to Flagstaff, Arizona with fellow William Jewell College Pillsbury Scholars for one week. During the trip, we collected data on the period of various binary stars on the 29&#8243; NURO telescope. We utilized the Linux command line to control the movement of the telescope and learned about the optics [&#8230;]]]></description> </item> </channel> </rss>