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Componica uses facial recognition to read students’ emotions during tests
Ten years ago, Steven Mitchell felt continually frustrated with the lack of real-world applications for machine learning and computer vision technology. So with his Ph.D in electrical engineering and a background in image processing, he founded Componica, a company to implement all the ideas he wanted to see come to life. Self-funded for over a…
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Kander: Startups fail because they lack customers, not funding
Speaking before a crowd of more than 600 businessmen and women at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Breakfast Wednesday morning, Diana Kander, senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, urged entrepreneurs to ditch the traditional business plan and adopt a more customer-based approach.