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N.J., Aug 01, 2019 - Amplo Global Inc., an AI-driven strategy and operations benchmarking company that measures organizational performance and assesses readiness of Industry 4.0 capabilities through its cloud-based platform DIVA™, announced that they have joined NJ Tech Council (njtc.org). NJ Tech Council is a nonprofit membership organization for technology companies and tech related professionals, providers, and advisors, that supports the tech, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the state and region. Amplo Global’s vision is to help its customers minimize costs and shift funds to innovation, creating opportunities for organizations to invest in new business and revenue models. The platform scores and automates business capabilities, benchmarks processes at various levels of business, optimizes operations performance, and supports the development of related outcome based key performance indicators to measure growth and spend towards connected products, operations, data and experiences.

Founded in 1996, the NJ Tech Council is a private, nonprofit membership organization, which supports the tech, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the state and region. It is amongst the largest and most respected trade organizations of its kind nationwide.

The Tech Council boasts some of the most dynamic conferences in the region including the Innovation Forecast and Venture Conference which attract hundreds of entrepreneurs, innovators and investors with great ideas and capital to invest. These events are fabulous connectors and grow every year with new faces, innovations and technology. Their conferences assemble the region's best and brightest high-tech and life science executives for insightful discussions, engaging speakers and practical advice for managing growing enterprises.

"As an AI-led strategy and operations product and services organization delivering a cognitive cloud platform (DIVATM), we are excited to partner with the NJ Tech Council to help clients across the industrial, health-sciences and distribution sectors on their Industry 4.0 journey and beyond,” said Anirban Bhattacharyya, Founder and CEO, Amplo Global Inc. “As a member of NJ Tech Council, we are looking forward to leveraging the excellent platform the council offers for networking, advocacy, thought leadership and innovation to serve our customers and the NJ Tech community better,” he added.

Modular in its approach and firmly grounded in analytics, AI, and machine learning concepts, DIVA™ provides organizations a value-based health check of their business capabilities and key underlying operational processes. Amplo Global’s client engagements consist of contextualizing the organization’s unique challenges, offering descriptive, predictive and prescriptive insights, benchmarking with best-in-class industry KPIs, and delivering a full roadmap of actions to undertake in both the near term and the years to come. Leveraging the DIVATM platform’s 5 modules and seven key strategic outputs, Amplo Global brings a unique blend of data-led, engineering-led and design-led methodology where the customer experience takes the center stage. This connected experience leads to a ripple effect, with various personas in the eco-system adopting the Industry 4.0 change. Digital re-invention is at the heart of Amplo Global Inc.

“We are excited to have Amplo Global Inc. join the NJ Tech Council. We believe that with their unique product, offerings and their perspective around Industry 4.0, they will add a lot of value to our member ecosystem and to the NJ Tech Council”, said Dan Sullivan, NJ Tech Council. “We wish them all the best and welcome them to the NJ Tech Council”, he added.

About NJ Tech Council

The New Jersey Tech Council provides business development, education, networking and recognition opportunities as well as advocacy for the state and the region's technology businesses. By collectively representing tech, life science and tech-related companies and organizations as well as the professional firms that support them, the Tech Council has the unique ability to: offer opportunities to learn, network and grow; recognize and promote member companies and their leadership; nurture the tech and STEM talent pipeline that is critical to growth; provide access to financing sources and additional resources; and advocate for public policy that strengthens our ecosystem.

About Amplo Global Inc.

Amplo Global Inc. is an AI led strategy and operations organization based out of Piscataway, NJ that drives both product and services solutions in North America and around the globe. Incubated in a garage in Edison, New Jersey, Amplo Global is now out in the market, creating productized strategy delivery models for organizations that embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution. Amplo Global is redefining the space of digital transformation by measuring organizational health and readiness for digitization, automation, and workforce re-skilling with product DIVA™, complemented by Industry 4.0 focused service offerings.

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Here’s something I wrote for August’s guest speaker at the NJ Tech Meetup in Hoboken. 

Entrepreneurship is an art. One of the keys to success is storytelling. How well you pitch your business, market your product and keep customers coming back are all part of the story you tell. If you are successful, you know people are really listening.

Gary Vaynerchuk is a brilliant entrepreneur because he…

So this weekend I am working on a few thing:

1.  The email blast for next week - based on the state that our users live in

The thing that I have learned about this campaign is NOT to make it seem as though we are asking for money.  It is necessary to appeal to people on the basis that they have the chance to participate in something important - something big that is being built.  

2.  Email outreach to bloggers that we have worked with in the past.  In return for spreading the news about our campaign we will offer them some of the cool giveaways that we have built into the campaign.  

So - this is exciting.  Today I read an article by @usertesting - Steven MacDonald on UserTesting.com

And in it he mentions www.ScreenPopper.com so I've built a pop up to direct our traffic to the Indiegogo Campaign that we are running.  We get a lot of traffic on our site and I being able to send any of it to the Indiegogo site would be a good win for us and might boost our GOGO Rating which would mean Indiegogo would feature our campaign - which would be a huge bonus and help drive our eventual success. 

I'm really excited about seeing how the ScreenPopper might affect our campaign.  The site has a free trial so I have tried that out.  If it works well - it might make perfect sense for us to use it in other ways on our site as well.  They have a very cool option that lets you put a tab on the side of the screen and I think we might use that to push out coupon codes for affiliates on our site.  We're an affiliate for Diapers.com which is a great site for our users, and being able to send them there with a coupon code could be a really good thing.  My mind is already swimming with things that we might do with it.

What else have I done in the past few days?  We got an answer from our local Westfield Patch.com editor and she asked us some questions about our fundraising campaign.  Hopefully they will carry and article on our campaign and that might help too.  

Alrighty!  Well, I know this is a quiet time of year for crowdfunding.  That was a risk that we took.  But it is also a big time of year for calendaring and organizing which is the basis of our tools so we hoped that might give us some interest as well.  We will see. 

Because I pushed out a press release the first night we launched (though did not forsee to somehow add a link to the campaign in the press release DOH!)  I took some recently released social media information (PEW RESEARCH) that has been in the news and emailed a few people that might be of interest in covering what we are doing (social media platform targeting women - who are the biggest users of almost every social media platform)....and a crowdfunding campaign.  Its hard to know what to focus in on as the important STORY that a journalist/blogger/etc might want to tell.  

I emailed a few tech/entrepreneurship places - but I also emailed a few people whom I really like and admire and read often.  I tweeted a few also when I could.  I tried not to come off as SPAMMY or stalkerish.  Really I am just hoping that someone sees as much that is interesting in what we want to do as I do.  Its a gamble. 

The local Patch writer returned my Tweet - which is great.  I will follow up with her again early next week if I don't hear back from my emailed response.  But I wanted to try and do as much with our press release as I could. 

Lean Startup principles are applicable for entrepreneurs in all sectors - from manufacturing to services to social organizations.  However technology, as a foundational or enabling element, is often a key differentiator for any startup.   At Lean Startup Machine workshops, we encourage entrepreneurs to leverage internet technology to scale learning about customers and deliver product ideas.  At the same time, we're fully aware of the disconnect between talented software engineers & web developers and smart entrepreneurs with ideas.   So we're using Lean Newark to combine technical and entrepreneurial talent to build the strongest startup teams in NJ! From now through October 11th, we're giving away 50 student scholarships for the next Lean Startup Machine Newark workshop on November 8-10.  To qualify you must be:

enrolled at a NJ university

majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other software development discipline, and

passionate about working in a startup environment

If you can handle all three then, then register HERE using the code LeanStudent.  

YOU MUST REGISTER WITH A UNIVERSITY DOMAIN TO QUALIFY.