SalesPredict

On the contrary, while it might seem that she’s newly thrust into the job market with her fresh doctorate, she’s actually already a year into a startup of her own called SalesPredict, which applies the same forecasting skill sets to predict sales, but with different algorithms (the Technion owns the intellectual property on her work with Microsoft). The aim is better qualified leads and increased revenues for corporations. According to its minimalist website (“We’re still in stealth mode,” Radinsky explains), SalesPredict is building “a cloud-based application that delivers targeted business-to-business sales intelligence to let sales pros focus on closing deals.” With her experience both in business and academia, Radinsky certainly has the data chops to pull off a project like SalesPredict. But potential customers would be best to avoid Radinsky in a dark alley – her “chops” extend beyond data to karate, in which she has a black belt. It’s an art she’s been practicing since age five. And besting the ambitious Radinsky would probably not be a prediction her own software would rank highly.