Search “robot lawn mower fails” on YouTube and you’ll quickly wind up both chuckling, and with the assurance that, if you want a cleanly-trimmed lawn, you’ll be sticking it out in the hot sun for a few years yet. Experts consistently say that, though robotic vacuums have fulfilled the promise of eliminating that piece of […]
Entrepreneurs Piyush Saggi and Nitesh Chhajwani set out to bridge the connection between sales and marketing teams with SalesTing, a tool that provided insight into how and where each individual sales or marketing team member contributed to acquiring specific leads. But then, Saggi and Chhajwani realized their customers were using their product for a wholly different […]
“If you think of a chatbot as just another marketing tool, you are definitely missing a big opportunity to engage and help consumers through the power of conversation,” Chad Mallory tells Hypepotamus. It’s true — chatbots not only drive faster customer engagement, they’re also forecast to help businesses save at least $8 billion by 2022. In 2015, […]
Brick and mortar stores see it often: potential customers are enticed inside by window displays, talk to retail associates, sometimes even try on an item of clothing or test a gadget — before leaving empty-handed. It can be frustrating for the shop owner and employees to see customers come and go without buying anything. That […]
When Drofika Labs pitched last year at Atlanta Startup Battle, they were selling the crowd on a drone analytics platform that automated flights and provided data to farmers. Though they didn’t win, shortly after, they landed a substantial farm land analysis contract. But they quickly realized they couldn’t afford to work on the project, due […]