It’s not unusual for technology startups to hire people to help develop the initial product, but SMHeuristics is on the opposite side: Startup companies, and some established ones, hire it to help find customers. Some people call such companies “growth ...
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Black Box VR chief design officer and co-founder Preston Lewis really thought his inaugural San Francisco virtual reality gym would be open by now. “I was hoping I could say, ‘We’re open next week,’ but we’re still waiting for the ...
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The best part about raising $10 million in Class B funding for AppDetex isn’t being able to update the technology or add more employees, but having everyone in the same office. “Currently, we are kind of separated into several different ...
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March 25, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with Neurilink — which is making your office smarter
Whether you see it as creepy or canny, “office workplace analytics” is a thing. It uses artificial intelligence to determine what spaces in an office are being used and how. And a Boise company – actually, several of them – ...
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March 20, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with American Semiconductor, making bendable chips
In a nondescript warehouse in west Boise, next door to a recreational vehicle lot, Richard Ellinger is pacing off the size of the new fabrication facility on the concrete floor. That’s because his company recently established a joint partnership that ...
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February 27, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with EPIC — as it creates ‘virtual realty’
With architects using virtual reality to help design their buildings, could real estate agents using virtual reality to help sell them be far behind? That’s the theory behind EPIC Realty, a Meridian-based real estate company that offers virtual reality and ...
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February 6, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with Rhino Hide — as it works with Homeland Security
It’s not the use it intended, but Rhino Hide is happy about a large potential new order just the same. The Sandpoint company, which produces wall material intended to help protect students from shooters, recently received a Letter of Intent ...
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January 16, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with GIMM — as it trains the next generation of developers
Boise State University’s Gaming, Interactive Media, and Mobile Technology major, popularly known as GIMM, will be graduating its first cohort of about 26 students this spring, and five of them already have jobs. In fact, one of director Anthony Ellertson’s ...
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January 9, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with Retrolux
The nice thing about Leif Elgethun’s business, Retrolux, is that it’s pretty much recession-proof, he said. Elgethun’s company develops software for the energy-efficient lighting industry. It has two primary markets: lighting retrofit contractors, who are helping building owners change their ...
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According to Metcalfe’s Law, the value of a network is the square of the number of nodes it has. That is, a network with 100 users is 100 times as valuable as a network with just 10 users. That’s what ...
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