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Articles by Thierry Arrondo

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Paysite Meetup: Catching Lightning in a Bottle

We just completed the first XBIZ.net Paysite Meetup in Prague. We caught lightning in a bottle.

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With AI, Routine Tasks Start Fading Away

Even if we don’t completely replace ourselves or a coworker with an AI, we will certainly replace parts of our jobs.

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New Solutions Require a Bullheadedness, Different Process

Each January we lead a small group of industry leaders on a tour of the crazy innovations at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. It’s a grind on our bodies. We all train for it beforehand. At the end of the day we check our activity trackers (25,000 steps).

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Avoiding a Crash Landing While Making Changes

Recently I had lunch with Peter, one of the most successful business coaches in Europe. We sat outside at a cafe a few kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. It was the middle of winter but the clouds parted often enough that the sun kept us warm.

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Will AI Make an Even Bigger Impact in 2017?

2016 was a year of changes for our industry. What were the two biggest changes for you in 2016? What are you looking forward to in 2017?

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Looking Back at Innovation in Adult

Innovation has a formula. It’s created by combining ideas in a new way. The process is often called lateral thinking. You take an idea that works somewhere and try it in a new place.

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The Journey Toward Artificial Intelligence in Processing

Let’s be honest. If you’re running a company you spend most of your time trying figure out what the hell is going on.

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Artificial Intelligence Treats Risk Like Cancer

An embarrassing thing happened to me in Amsterdam. I’d just finished dinner with a new partner at a nice restaurant. OK … more expensive than nice, but you know what I mean. I grade food in Amsterdam on a curve.

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Developing, Launching New Products

Last fall I discovered that voice-to-text had finally become useful on my mobile. It was 85 to 90 percent accurate in a quiet room. It felt like magic.

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Arguments for AI in Processing

Recently, my wife asked me for a photo I’d taken of a sunset on a beach. I’ve got over 20,000 photos in the cloud. You’ve probably got even more than I do. Photos aren’t easy to sort. I can’t remember when I took the picture my wife wants. I live in Spain — lots of sunsets on beaches. I was a little intimidated.

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Top Myths of Dynamic Pricing

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy

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Artificially Intelligent Pricing Is Here

There’s a lot of talk these days about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI).

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